Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

Researchers have discovered the brightest and most powerful flare ever seen from a supermassive black hole. Located about 10 ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

MacArthur Fellow Kareem El-Badry is redefining how we understand the cosmos, uncovering black holes, decoding the ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of elusive Hawking radiation. (Nanowerk News) The last gasp of a primordial ...

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.