Black Holes

The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth’s rotation

First glimpsed as “little red dots” in deep-space images from the James Webb Space Telescope, these giant, gas-shrouded black holes are full of surprises

Giant black holes adrift in deep space are normally invisible—unless they’re dining on stars

The discovery of a completely new type of gravitational wave could reveal what happens near a black hole’s event horizon

Understanding the behavior of supermassive black holes

Extremely curved spacetime can warp cause and effect, creating channels for backward communication

Planets might exist in the least likely place you’d imagine—around the outskirts of supermassive black holes

A breeze is emanating from Sagittarius A* at the heart of our galaxy

A blip of light in the outer reaches of the Milky Way might be a bizarre black hole born at the beginning of time itself—and the long-sought solution to the mystery of dark matter. Astronomers are calling it “Phoebe”

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?