Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

What does it do? It accelerates and collides particles at 99.99% of the speed of light. And maybe, it could produce the very ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...