2025 was another big year for black holes, and here's our pick of the top black hole stories from the last twelve months.

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up everything that comes their way, but astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter ...

A supermassive black hole has been caught in the act of fleeing its home galaxy, racing through intergalactic space at breakneck speed and reshaping everything in its path. Using the James Webb Space ...

Astronomers have made a mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope: a runaway black hole 10 million times ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...