At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We ...