On Jan. 5, 2020, astrophysicists heard a chirp from a distant part of the cosmos, some 900 million light-years away. The fleeting sound was unlike any they'd heard before and was caused by a great ...

Based on the new findings, the researchers estimate that a mash-up between a black hole and a neutron star occurs about once a month within 1 billion light-years of Earth.

The black hole is located in a dwarf galaxy a million light-years away and ripped apart an unlucky star in a brutal tidal disruption event. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...

These black holes are between 100 and 1,000 times as massive as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way that sits just 26,000 light-years from Earth.

In October 2018, astronomers witnessed a small star being ripped to shreds and swallowed when it wandered too close to a black hole in a galaxy located 665 million light years away from Earth ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...