Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

The bold question-askers at What If venture beyond the event horizon to speculate what could lie inside a black hole.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...