We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. A halo of light polarized by a gigantic black hole's magnetic field...
Pic + video Most intimate snap yet of M87's supermassive abyss
25 Mar 2021
Articles about Black Hole
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... a pair of black holes coalesced resulting in largest gravitational wave we've seen
Video Void forged in merger event also the first of its kind spotted
02 Sep 2020
Pew, pew, pew! Our galaxy is shooting cold, gaseous 'bullets' of high-speed matter. Boffins are baffled
Mysterious behavior spotted at the Milky Way's center
21 Aug 2020
If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?
There may be a small black hole on the edge of our Solar System? 2020, please stop
10 Jul 2020
Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all
This year is just one disappointment after another, eh?
02 Jul 2020
Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole
Or was target practice for a Death Star?
01 Jul 2020
Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet
Mysterious object's mass has challenged astrophysics models
24 Jun 2020
Check out the night sky in all its X-ray glory: Everything from hot gases to supernovas and massive black holes
Pic eROSITA telescope shows a busy, energetic universe
19 Jun 2020
There's a black hole lurking within 1,000 light years of Earth – and you can see stars circling it with the naked eye
Disclaimer: Black hole not visible, southern hemisphere required
06 May 2020
Somewhere, way out there, two black holes, one large and one small, merged. And here on Earth, we detected the gravitational wave blast
When science fact is better than science fiction
21 Apr 2020
Star's rosette orbit around our supermassive black hole proves Einstein's Theory of General Relativity correct
27 years of watching the Milky Way's core – that's how proper science is done
17 Apr 2020
If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star
Could this candidate be a missing link between small and bonkers-massive?
02 Apr 2020
Remember that blurry first-ever photo of a black hole? Turns out snaps like that can tell us a lot about these matter-gobbling voids
Vid Watch how layers of photon rings reveal things like spin and mass
19 Mar 2020
The mysterious giant blobs of gas around our galaxy's black hole are actually massive merger stars being shredded
Yum, long noodle-like stars
16 Jan 2020
You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched
Updated We knew it was too good to be true
12 Dec 2019
Planets may lurk in harshest environments. Not that Novell NetWare server you can't unplug – black holes
Technically possible but there's no way to check... for now
26 Nov 2019
Astroboffins rethink black hole theory after spotting tiny example with its own star buddy
The 'massive unseen companion' is still a mystery
01 Nov 2019
Black holes are like buses: You wait for one – and three turn up at once in galaxy merger
Pic Three becoming one
26 Sep 2019
Create a news alert about Black Hole, or find more stories about Black Hole.
