Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year ...

Astronomers also suspect that a class of objects called intermediate-mass black holes exist in the universe, although evidence for them is so far debatable. No matter their starting size ...

New research into the Cosmic Horseshoe reveals the presence of an ultra-massive black hole (UMBH) in the foreground galaxy with a staggering 36 billion solar masses. There's no strict definition ...

His idea was controversial, but his research paved the way to the discovery of black holes. Today, UChicago scientists are conducting groundbreaking research on black holes and what they can tell us ...

And in a recent experiment, scientists decided to look deep into a black hole that's way closer to home — where they were met with an explosive light show. In the most detailed look at that ...

Black holes themselves are invisible—they emit virtually no light and so cannot be seen directly. But we have developed several ways to find them anyway. By seeing their gravity pulling on other ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...