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

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...

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 giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest ...

"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 ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

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 ...