Black holes

Artist's impression of a Sun-like star near a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Where is the nearest black hole to Earth?

Globular cluster NGC 6397, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Concentration of black holes found in ancient star cluster

45 million lightyears from Earth lies NGC 1097, a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Fornax with a beautiful star-bursting nuclear ring surrounding it. This image was captured using the MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope operated by the European Souther Observatory in Chile's Atacama Desert. Credit: ESO/TIMER Survey

Eye On The Sky Ring of star formation around galactic supermassive black hole

Cone-shaped shadows emanating from the bright centre of galaxy IC 5063 could be cast by the dusty ring surrounding the supermassive black hole at its centre. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI and W.P. Maksym (CfA)

Eye On The Sky Shadow cast by dust disc around supermassive black hole

What is a black hole? Janna Levin appears on the Radio Astronomy podcast

Radio Astronomy Podcast What's a black hole?

Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images

BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

Left to right: Reinhard Genzel, Andrea Gez and Roger Penrose, winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics. Credit: Niklas Elmehed. © Nobel Media.

Trio win Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 for work on black holes

An artist’s impression showing a star being torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole. Credit: ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

How do black holes form?

Ophiuchus galaxy cluster explosion

Eye On The Sky Astronomers capture biggest explosion ever seen

A black hole within a host galaxy. Credit: NASA/CXC/INAF/R. Gilli et al.; Radio NRAO/VLA; Optical: NASA/STScI

Eye On The Sky A black hole in its host galaxy spotted 9.9 billion lightyears away

Scientists are watching pulsars carefully to detect the rippling fabric of the cosmos. Credit: dani3315/iStock/Getty Images

Searching for gravitational waves from supermassive black holes

Hot gas in the Phoenix Cluster. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/MIT/M.McDonald et al; Radio: NRAO/VLA; Optical: NASA/STScI

Eye On The Sky Supermassive black hole aids star formation in the Phoenix Cluster

A cataclysmic flare, propelled from the heart of the Milky Way 3.5 million years ago, was felt 200,000 lightyears away. Credit: James Josephides/Thorsten Tepper-Garcia/ASTRO 3D

Observations shed light on the history of our Galaxy’s supermassive black hole

An artist’s impression of V404 Cygni shows it drawing in material from a nearby star (left). Jets of gas (right) are released from its disc. Credit: icrar

Black hole jets may be more unpredictable than thought

S5-HVS1 has been speeding away ever since its dust-up with black hole Sgr A* 4.8 million years ago. Credit: hadzi3/iStock/Getty Images, Vadim Sadovski/iStock/Getty Images.

Speeding star reveals the secrets of the Milky Way