"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

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 ...

Sitting in a dark planetarium, kids of all ages had stars in their eyes on Friday as they learned about black holes and Earth science from working NASA scientists. The scientists on Friday answered ...

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.

Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets too close into cosmic spaghetti. But Black Hole expert Janna Levin has ...

The team examined an ancient quasar which they described as “a galaxy with a black hole so old and bright it looks like a cosmic beacon from the dawn of time”. Their study showed that the quasar had a ...

Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...

The fact is, however, that the mass of black holes varies greatly out in the vast universe, and astronomers have recently discovered what they believe may be the biggest one ever found. They estimate ...

First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...