Last year kicked off the era of JWST, while astronomers mapped out the next decade of discovery and released some of the first results from the Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu.
Over the past year, astronomers have gleaned new insights into black holes across the universe. Here is a list of 15 times black holes surprised us in 2022.
Astronomers suspect there are around 100 million wandering black holes in the Milky Way galaxy, and they recently detected one moving quickly through space.