Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

A provocative new theory suggests that the Universe may not have begun with a traditional Big Bang, but rather as a “Big Bounce” — the explosive rebound of matter collapsing into a black hole. Led by ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years ...

Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...

A new article published in The Astrophysical Journal explores a new theory of how Type Ia supernovae, the powerful stellar ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...

A tiny particle that smashed into Earth with a record-shattering energy of 220 petaelectronvolts could be the last scream of ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

A black hole is a celestial body with an extremely powerful gravitational force, so strong that even light cannot escape it.

Futurama season 13 has been available for binging on Hulu for a full week now. While the episodes are overall very strong, ...

The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...

Located 12.8 billion light-years away, the black hole, called RACS J0320-35, weighs about a billion times the mass of our sun ...