ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to latter, black hole Gaia BH2, and see what makes it unique. Credit:

Explore the mysterious world of black holes in this video that delves into the real physics behind these fascinating cosmic phenomena. Chapters include: 00:00 What if I threw you into a Black Hole? 00:42 What are Black Holes?

Supermassive black holes are among the most enigmatic objects in the universe. They typically weigh millions or even billions of times the mass of the sun and sit at the centers of most large galaxies.

Astronomers have accurately measured the "dancing" energy jets of the first confirmed black hole, Cygnus X-1, more than 60 years after it was first spotted.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration created a single image (top frame) of the supermassive black hole at ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled together and merged. The signal had traveled about 1.3 billion years to reach us at the speed of light—but it was not made of light.

Tushna Commissariat talks to author and historian Lynn Gamwell about her fascination with abstract art, visualizing the invisible, and how science and art interact – and introduces an edited excerpt from Gamwell’s new book Conjuring the Void: the Art of Black Holes Black Hole,