Astronomers have uncovered a previously unknown supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), one of the Milky ...

Stars streak across the horizon in beautiful ... and they’re easily fooled when the extreme black of space is in the same shot with the extreme white of Earth’s clouds.

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This ...

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

Han and his colleagues realized that this black hole must exist when they were studying so-called hypervelocity stars. These ...

The universe is ballooning outward at an ever-faster clip under the power of an unknown force dubbed dark energy. One of the ...

Most galaxies are thought to have such a black hole at their core ... The researchers used data from the European Space ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

Black holes are points in space that are ... Such a burst flings star matter out into space but leaves behind the stellar core. While the star was alive, nuclear fusion created a constant outward ...

But on their way to the moon and planets the children's rockets go wrong and whizz through space-time at hyper-speed ... of travel to represent binary stars - a star system where both stars ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...