A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

When an international team of astronomers went to observe x-ray samples of galaxies created by an observatory in Cambridge, researchers said they discovered a supermassive black hole that defied what ...

Astronomers have made the first direct observation of a spinning black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime, a ...

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...

New XRISM X-ray observations reveal details of gas near a supermassive black hole in galaxy MCG–6-30-15, helping scientists better measure black hole spin and behavior ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show. Astronomers ...

Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns. These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up ...

Black holes are significant within the scientific exploration of space. They are places in space where gravity is incredibly strong, so much so that not even light can evade it.  The center of a black ...

Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from Earth that experts say expands the current understanding of how black holes ...

The oldest confirmed black hole formed when the universe was a mere infant, within 500 million years of the Big Bang, researchers report. The James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, saw the enormous ...