Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

Sharper views of black holes are turning what once looked like a fuzzy cosmic icon into a precision tool for testing gravity ...

The noise coming from a black hole sounds like a track played at a Halloween party. The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- NASA just released eerie audio from a black hole this week and now Twitter is in a tizzy. The black hole is about 240 million light years away from Earth. NASA says that in reality, ...

WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...

Out in a dust and gas filled galaxy called NGC 1365, there is a supermassive black hole that has a mass two million times that of our sun. This black hole is a dense object buried at the heart of its ...

Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

Finnish scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic voids come in pairs, per a study published October 9 in the ...