But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's most long-awaited surveys begins. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) ...

A black hole is more than just a region of space where nothing escapes. It can also become a powerful cosmic engine.

These observations located the magnesium emission line that reveals how fast matter spirals toward the black hole and how fast the entire galaxy is receding because of cosmic expansion. Using a ...

NASA finds supermassive black hole called ‘Space Jaws:’ Why it deserves sci-fi horror name A sneaky black hole was the source of a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that ...

Inside the star's shell, a black hole or a dense neutron star would then form, and blast out jets of radiation through the shell, creating what's called a central engine.

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

This particular black hole was adding material at a slow rate—until it wasn’t. Back in 2018, the black hole first made news when it suddenly increased its activity exponentially.

Explore Earth and our neighboring worlds in the Solar System, orbit a black hole in a galaxy billions of light-years away, or visit anything in between seamlessly, with no transitions.All of time ...

Observations from the Event Horizon Telescope may reveal a secret merger in our supermassive black hole's past, potentially explaining the cosmic monster's unusual spin.

Stars that wander too close to supermassive black holes may be violently undone in a process called "spaghettification." New simulations provide the most detailed look ever at the gory interaction.