Hubble spots black hole twisting a star into a doughnut shape, then chowing down on it

A supermassive black hole has been discovered that formed when the Universe was just 3 per cent of its current age – around 500 million years after the Big Bang, or 13.3 billion years ago. Found in th

Get sucked into an astronomical mystery as we get in a spin with the universe’s heaviest objects.

Did you know? The nearest black hole is ...

Astronomers love a challenge. They place their observatories on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on the coldest ice shelves, beneath the deepest oceans, in orbit around Earth and the Sun,

Ten years ago, on 14 September 2015, a new window on the Universe was opened, giving us a novel way of studying exotic, high-energy objects such as black holes and neutron stars: the first direct dete

An astrophysicist has made a daring proposal to send ...