The film revolves around the residents of a drab apartment block whose lives are upended when a black hole appears mysteriously in a lilac bush, and they find themselves confronted with aliens who ...

This illustration of material swirling around a black hole highlights a particular feature, called the “corona,” that shines brightly in X-ray light. In this depiction, the corona can be seen ...

Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a gravity pit from which nothing can escape, they can also shoot off powerful ...

For years astronomers have been troubled by observations of fully grown supermassive black holes before the universe was even a billion years old. This is challenging because as far as we know the ...

When a supermassive black hole lights up like this, we call it a quasar. How to watch a quasar To get a good look at quasar jets, astronomers often use radio telescopes.

Black holes need no introduction. Their ability to pull everything that crosses their boundary into a gravity pit is legendary. But did you know they can also spew out charged particles resulting in ...

The active galaxy Centaurus A, with jets emanating from the central black hole. Credit: ESO/WFI (Optical); MPIfR/ESO/APEX/A.Weiss et al. (Submillimetre); NASA/CXC/CfA/R.Kraft et al. (X-ray), CC BY ...

Black holes lie at the heart of an extraordinary cosmic event that is currently unfolding. With the help of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, scientists have detected a peculiar phenomenon ...

A century after the death of Franz Kafka, a five-page original manuscript and a letter from the writer were auctioned in ...

While Timothée Chalamet didn’t go full Jared Leto and stay in character 24/7 or become completely insufferable to those around him, it was clear he kept a mental distance from the “Chalamet” we all ...

A selection of the week's best photos from across the African continent and beyond: ...

New survey reveals 2,500 black holes in dwarf galaxies DESI’s findings suggest a threefold increase in black hole counts Hundreds of new middleweight black hole candidates are identified ...