Black hole

Black hole

Artist's impression shows a star, with a mass at least 30 times the mass of the sun, being shredded in a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event after it strayed too close to a supermassive black hole, with a mass roughly 300 million times that of the sun, in a galaxy located more than 11 billion light-years from Earth, in this image released on November 4, 2025. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)/Handout via REUTERS

Star-eating black hole unleashes record-setting energetic flare

The researchers said the most likely explanation for the flare is a large star being pulled into the black hole. As material from the ill-fated star falls inward, it causes a flare of energy when...

An artist's conception shows a massive star being stretched by the gravitational forces of a nearby black hole prior to the star's supernova explosion, in this undated handout image. Illustration: Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA)/Handout via REUTERS

New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode

An artist's conception shows a massive star being stretched by the gravitational forces of a nearby black hole prior to the star's supernova explosion, in this undated handout image. Melissa Weiss/Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA)/Handout via REUTERS

New type of supernova detected as black hole causes star to explode

India launches satellite to study black holes

India launches satellite to study black holes

The NASA logo hangs in the Mission Operations Control Center at Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia, U.S., October 26, 2022. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File Photo

NASA telescopes discover record-breaking black hole

Scientists observing the compact radio core of galaxy M87 have discovered new details about the galaxy’s supermassive black hole. In this artist’s conception, the black hole’s massive jet is seen rising up from the center of the black hole. The observations on which this illustration is based represent the first time that the jet and the black hole shadow have been imaged together, giving scientists new insights into how black holes can launch these powerful jets. S. Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/Handout via REUTERS

New image reveals violent events near a supermassive black hole

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Hubble telescope captures supermassive black hole eating a star

Nasa releases audio capturing eerie sound from black hole

Nasa releases audio capturing eerie sound from black hole

An artist’s impression showing what the binary star system VFTS 243 – containing a black hole and a large luminous star orbiting each other - might look like if we were observing it up close is seen in this undated handout image. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the sun. ESO/L. Calcada/Handout via REUTERS

Scientists find an exotic black hole deemed a 'needle in a haystack'

Giant black hole marked in Earth's galaxy

Giant black hole marked in Earth's galaxy

This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. EHT Collaboration/National Science Foundation/Handout via REUTERS

Scientists unveil image of 'gentle giant' black hole at Milky Way's center

This artist?s concept released October 30, 2017 shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole ? and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS

Black hole hunters cast gaze at center of the Milky Way galaxy

An artist's impression of the Cygnus X-1 system, with a so-called stellar-mass black hole orbiting a companion star some 7,200 light years from Earth. International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research/Handout via REUTERS

New look at first black hole detected shows it is bigger than expected