At the heart of nearly every large galaxy lies a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants don’t just sit quietly. Every ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

Don't worry, there's no need to be concerned of encountering a black hole anytime soon, but here's what would happen to your ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array — a group of dozens of radio telescopes in the Chilean desert and the ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which involves UCL researchers, has released its most detailed analysis yet ...

Discover how iron's opacity in the sun challenges scientific models, and how researchers are working to resolve the ...