A black hole has shredded a massive star like it was "preparing a snack for lunch," according to a team of scientists at the ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Nearly every galaxy has a supermassive black hole in its core. Whether the black hole forms first and then the galaxy around ...

Using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers from the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) ...

Astronomers were puzzled by a black hole around 50 million times the mass of the sun with no stars, spotted by the James Webb ...

A supermassive black hole that’s 10 million times the mass of the Sun is hurtling through space, leaving a trail of gas that’s spawning newborn stars in its wake. Astronomers have long theorized about ...

QSO1. It lived just 700 million years after the Big Bang and already had a mass about 50 million times that of the Sun.

In any other year, the supermassive black hole mentioned above would probably scoop the award for most striking outburst, but not in 2025. This year, that accolade goes to a flare designated ...

A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

Astronomers have found a system of three supermassive black holes, all actively feeding, that appear to be combining into a ...

Astronomers have confirmed the first known triple system in which all three galaxies host actively feeding, radio-bright ...

According to the theory, our reality is encoded on the boundary of a black hole within a much larger universe.