The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...

Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

For decades, astronomers have known that supermassive black holes lurk at the hearts of essentially all large galaxies, ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

Astronomers have captured the moment a supermassive black hole literally tore apart a super sun (one 30 times larger than our ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...