When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Kemi Badenoch skewered Sir Keir Starmer over Rachel Reeves in a fiery PMQs clash. The Tory leader branded the Chancellor's ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...

Black holes may be growing faster than they are currently evaporating. But this will not go on forever!

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...