Black hole unbalances entire galaxy with massive tantrum

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 ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Christmas Day 2021, astronomers hoped it would revolutionise our understanding of the early stages of the Universe. And they were right. Almost a

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

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

Flicking through the pages of BBC Sky at Night Magazine each month, you’d be forgiven for thinking astronomers have black holes pinned down. Whether it’s the dramatic imaging of black hole shadows by