Recent observations suggest that 'runaway' black holes are tumbling through the cosmos. Building on decades of theory, the discovery adds a remarkable new chapter to the story of the universe.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery, unearthing an enormous black hole in the unassuming Segue 1, a nearby dwarf galaxy. This unexpected find, reported on October 29, 2025, is a ‘naked’ ...

Webb telescope data confirm a supermassive black hole fleeing its galaxy, carving a 200,000 light-year wake of new stars.

Scientists have named two systems of colliding supermassive black holes after Lord of the Rings locations, Gondor and Rohan.

Supermassive black holes may not be as massive as previously thought, according to a new discovery by scientists. Astronomers from the University of Southampton, working with colleagues from France, ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event: a massive star that didn’t explode in a spectacular supernova, but instead ...

The team discovered the star by analyzing archival data from NASA’s NEOWISE mission. They used a prediction from the 1970s ...

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The puzzle of how supermassive black holes grew so large just after the Big Bang could soon be solved. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

A new study co-led by the University of Oxford and Google Cloud has shown how general-purpose AI can accurately classify real changes in the night sky—such as an exploding star, a black hole tearing ...