With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

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A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The bold question-askers at What If reveal how black holes bend light and allow us to peer into their mysterious depths.

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...