Is there any mention of black holes in the Qur’an or Sunnah?

The Holy Quran is a book of guidance for humanity, not a book of astronomical information. The cosmic signs within it are meant to point to guidance.

It is not permissible to deny that the Quran contains precise descriptions of cosmic phenomena, which indicates that it is the word of the All-Knowing, the All-Aware.

Regarding His (the Exalted) saying: "Nay, I swear by the receding stars, The planets that run their course and hide themselves" (At-Takwir/15-16), the majority of the Salaf held that it refers to the stars that appear at night and disappear during the day.

Some contemporary researchers have suggested that the description "receding, running their course and hiding themselves" applies to "black holes," which swallow everything that passes through them and are dark.

This interpretation is plausible, and the verse may refer to it and to other phenomena that fit the description, as is the approach of Al-Tabari.

The view that black holes are what is intended by the verse does not deviate from the linguistic meaning of the two words, nor from previous interpretations. It merely adds a new individual to the general categories to which the term applies.

The interpretation of the verse does not depend on space sciences, and its meaning is clear, as established by the imams of tafsir.

Even if the existence of black holes is confirmed with certainty, they are merely a detail among the types of stars to which the verse applies. It is not permissible to assert definitively that the verse refers to nothing else.