From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in mysterious ways, here are the top 10 black hole discoveries that blew our ...

Director/co-writer Christopher Nolan’s sci-fi epic Interstellar is celebrating ... of what turned out to be the film’s prophetic black hole visuals. During pre-production, Thorne wanted ...

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar marks its 10th anniversary ... revisits the meticulous creation of the film’s prophetic black hole visuals. Nolan recalled his initial reluctance to involve ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found an unusual mark from a giant black hole's powerful jet striking ...

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two newly discovered systems hint at a survival mechanism. Death by black hole isn't always inevitable for stars that exist in ...