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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...