Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory joined forces to find an elusive intermediate mass black holes in ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- NASA just released eerie audio from a black hole this week and now Twitter is in a tizzy. The black hole is about 240 million light years away from Earth. NASA says that in reality, ...

We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A comparison between the galaxy clusters Perseus and Centauru. The glowing white dots are black ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed "extreme nuclear transients" (ENTs), that represent the most energetic events observed in the universe, perhaps since the Big Bang ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Probing a distant ...