Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

If an unlucky star swings too close, it gets torn apart. The star's shattered material becomes a stream that spins rapidly ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

After years of observation, researchers concluded that the sudden changes in the galaxy were likely caused by its black hole ...

Scientists have observed a previously inactive supermassive black hole producing regular, powerful X-ray eruptions that ...