The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

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Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

These findings may be hard to reconcile with the standard Big Bang timeline, but they could make sense if early relics like supermassive black holes helped galaxies form faster. "Of course, suggesting ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions seen since the Big Bang.

But what if black holes didn't always begin with a bang? What if, instead, they started quietly—growing inside stars, which still appear alive from the outside, without anyone noticing?

Black Holes coverage from Scientific American, featuring news and articles about advances in the field.

Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have observed a black hole in the act of devouring a star, ripping it apart and creating a huge burst of radiation.

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.