New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

A black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun has just been discovered, defying everything we thought we knew about space ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

A section that seats about 100 people just behind the south end zone at California’s Memorial Stadium has been painted black, hoping people with painted faces and other distinctive gear show up to add ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

For the first time in human history, scientists captured the impossible — an image of a black hole. This documentary uncovers the struggle, the science, and the moment that changed astronomy forever.

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

The images, captured with the Event Horizon Telescope, show the magnetic field of the supermassive black hole M87* completely reversing. EHT Collaboration Observations of a supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a supermassive ...