The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

"We'll have to rewrite our interpretation of these flares and what they can teach us about the monsters lying in the centers ...

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

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

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

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

Star AT 2022dbl wandered close to black hole but was only partially destroyed; Tel Aviv University researchers say discovery ...

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

Quasars are among the most powerful and mysterious objects in the universe,bright, energetic beacons powered by supermassive ...

A rogue intermediate-mass black hole has been observed disrupting a star's orbit in a distant galaxy, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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