
NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster
Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

NASA’s Hubble captures gorgeous new photo of a spiral galaxy as it wanders through the Virgo Cluster
Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust
Gigantic, ancient black hole threatens to upend cosmic history
Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter


What happens when galaxies collide?
Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?

New NASA Hubble image captures a rare, turbulent galaxy
The new image shows the galaxy NGC 1266, a transitional object with a clutch of young stars that likely collided with a smaller galaxy 500 million years ago

Death by primordial black hole is hard to come by
Subatomic black holes from ancient cosmic history could, in principle, make you have a very bad day. But chances are you’ll never encounter one

Secrets of cosmic evolution may lurk in this black hole’s ‘dancing’ jets
A first-of-its-kind observation shows how jets from voracious black holes can shape the growth of galaxies

Did the very young universe make swarms of tiny black holes?
Long ago, the cosmos might have been a black hole factory—and these primordial objects are even weirder than you think

A boom in gravitational waves leaves scientists with more questions than answers
A new data release more than doubles the number of gravitational-wave candidate events—and reveals unexpected complexities of merging black holes

Have astronomers found a runaway monster black hole or just a very weird galaxy?
Despite years of debate and follow-up studies, an odd streak of cosmic light still defies a final explanation. Is it a giant black hole screaming through intergalactic space?

Are prime numbers hiding inside black holes?
The strange case for prime numbers at the heart of physics

How much energy is released when supermassive black holes collide?
The collision of supermassive black holes shakes the entire cosmos, hard

This vanished star may mark a ‘failed supernova’—and a newborn black hole
A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate for a newborn black hole that astronomers have ever seen