Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black ...

Astronomers have discovered two massive black holes in a galaxy 2 billion light-years away. This marks the first time one of ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

The pair — dueling it out 11 billion light-years away in space — has given astronomers their first detailed look at a galaxy ...

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.