The death of a star at the hands of a massive black hole in a galaxy 650 million light-years away has surprised astronomers, ...

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...

NEW YORK -- A star was shredded apart by a black hole and a scientist's keen observation set off a chain of events that allowed the phenomenon to be captured on several different satellite cameras.

Astronomers have caught a blast of hot wind streaming from the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sgr A*, for the first time ever.

Scientists may have finally uncovered the mystery behind ultra-high-energy cosmic rays — the most powerful particles known in ...

The last gasp of a primordial black hole may be the source of the highest-energy "ghost particle" detected to date, a new MIT study proposes. In a paper appearing today in Physical Review Letters, MIT ...

A new study has suggested some of the universe's oldest black holes pass our cosmic neighbourhood at least once every decade, moving planets in their wake. And if scientists can detect them, it would ...