black holes

A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again
This orange dot is a gamma-ray burst, which appears to be a sign of an unusual event. IT/A. Levan, A. ...

Astronomers captured an incredible view of M87’s black hole jet
A jet escaping from the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy Jan Roeder; Macek Wielgus et al. ...

Is the universe really one big black hole?
Could this be an illustration of the entire universe? Arlum/Alamy The following is an excerpt from our newsletter, Lost in ...

First photo of a black hole resembles ‘skinny’ doughnut
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Do black holes exist and, if not, what have we really been looking at?
Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? ...