Black Holes

Exotic Objects

Could we steal energy from leaking black holes?

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Global telescope creates exquisite map of black hole’s swirling magnetic field

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Galaxies

How do supermassive black holes grow so large?

Exotic Objects

Cygnus X-1: The black hole that started it all

Exotic Objects

Triple star recipe for supersized stellar-mass black holes

Deep-Sky Objects, Exotic Objects

Snapshot: Black holes sprinkled in a globular star cluster

Exotic Objects, Galaxies

Ask Astro: What happens when a galaxy ejects its supermassive black hole?

Exotic Objects

Could a human enter a black hole to study it?

Exotic Objects

The Beginning to the End of the Universe: How black holes die

Exotic Objects

How black holes morphed from theory to reality

Cosmology, Exotic Objects

Ask Astro: What would happen if NGC 6240’s three supermassive black holes merged?

Exotic Objects, Robotic Spaceflight

Snapshot: Hubble spots a black hole casting shadows in space