"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

It is 14.6 million miles wide and is four million times the mass of the sun. The black hole spins incredibly fast, at an ...

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings. This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273 ...

The white part of the egg is like the galaxy disc, where the stars are spread out (see graphic ... core of our galaxy – a supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A*).

Researchers discovered a surprising water-bound black hole with 140 trillion times the water of Earth’s oceans combined.

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments.

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

What happens when a gargantuan cloud of gas swallows a pair of monster black holes with their own appetites? Feasting on the gas can cause some weird (heavenly) bodily functions. AT 2021hdr is a ...