James Webb Space telescope spots 'big red dot' in the ancient universe: A ravenous supermassive black hole named 'BiRD' ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Theoretical physicist Alex Lupsasca is pushing for a space telescope to glimpse the thin ring of light that is thought to surround every black hole.

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

In a remarkable display of cosmic power, astronomers have detected the most potent black hole flare ever recorded. This ...

In 2017, the EHT collaboration yielded the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 ...

The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) celebrates 20 years of observing the sky. SALT is the largest optical telescope ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

What does it take to outshine 10 trillion suns? In the case of the cosmic flare nicknamed “Superman,” the answer is a ...

Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole 25,640 light years away, at the center of our own galaxy earlier today in a special edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.