The Latest Breaking News from Black Hole

A new solution to Einstein's theory of general relativity suggests a hypothetical star could be made of stacked black holes.

Scientists have found a black hole surrounded by the largest and brightest disc of captive matter ever discovered.

A distant quasar that was initially mistaken for a star is actually one of the brightest and fastest-growing black holes ever seen.

Astronomers have discovered a quasar that remained hidden for over the years is the brightest ever, powered by the fastest growing black hole ever discovered that eats a sun every day.

A new study combining two of Albert Einstein's famous predictions suggests that ripples in space-time can combine into 'gravitational lasers', firing out of black holes in random directions across the cosmos.

As predicted by general relativity, the rapid spin of our galaxy's 4.1-million-solar-mass black hole is able to warp the fabric of spacetime.

Observations of bright galaxies in the early universe could indicate that black holes were driving star formation and galaxy growth just 50 million years after the Big Bang.

For the first time, scientists discovered a powerful 'black hole wind' that blew through a nearby galaxy for hundreds of days, crushing star formation and reshaping the galaxy. Something similar may already have happened in the Milky Way.

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