The James Webb Space Telescope captured infrared light from a black hole and gave scientists unprecedented insights into the ...

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 ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way was an invisible monster, betrayed only by the way ...

The Webb Telescope may have witnessed the birth of a supermassive black hole, revealing a faster path for these cosmic giants.

Astronomers have uncovered what may be the most massive black hole ever found, 36 billion times the mass of our Sun, hidden at the heart of the Cosmic Horseshoe galaxy. Located 5 billion light-years ...

Everything about the Infinity galaxy is unusual. It looks very strange and it has a supermassive black hole pulling a lot of ...

In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole, located 53 million light-years away in the ...

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 ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns—10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way—has been discovered around 5 billion light-years from Earth. It may be the ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...