Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

The bold question-askers at What If reveal how black holes bend light and allow us to peer into their mysterious depths.

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...