Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes.

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

2024 saw a number of successful moon landings by Japan, Intuitive Machines, and SpaceX, while the Boeing Starliner stranded ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ... Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

A merger of galaxies and their supermassive black holes in the ZS7 system was spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. The ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.