Black Holes

Black holes aren't always born from imploding stars, a radical new study proposes

So far, massive, star-sized black holes were thought to form only from collapsed stars.

An invisible magnetic field could be keeping the black hole in our Milky Way 'quiet'

While gravity in a black hole is better understood, the role of its magnetic field on the solar system remains a mystery.

Meet Katie Bouman, the scientist whose algorithm helped image the first black hole

Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole.

Everything you want to know about the first ever image of a black hole

The black hole in the centre of our Milky Way is about 1000 times less massive than the one in M87.

Black hole event horizon: Stunning images of black holes we've never actually seen

Researchers may soon release the first-ever close up of the edge of a black hole in the Milky Way.

Could rotating black holes be gentle portals for hyperspace travel in the future?

Black holes are considered potential shortcuts through spacetime to cross cosmic distances.

First closeup image of a black hole ever taken might be unveiled on 10 April

The closest supermassive black hole to us is thought to be at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy.

Jyoti Dogra on her play The Black Hole, drawing connections between life and science on stage

Playwright Jyoti Dogra's latest performance piece uses the blackhole as a metaphor to mean human life — the line of difference between who is dead and who is alive

3,00,000 newly-discovered galaxies mapped in groundbreaking survey of the universe

The team also plans to map the entire northern sky in high-res, potentially revealing millions more.

Canadian researchers closer to solving one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries

These things come to us from halfway across the universe & we know so little about them: Researcher.