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 ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

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 ...

A new study shows survivor stars can live billions of years longer than normal, carrying chemical fingerprints of their violent encounters with the Milky Way's black hole.

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...