Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

Supermassive black holes shoot energy in bullet-like bursts rather than steady winds, affecting galaxy formation.

If it’s true, this work could have ramifications for some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including learning where ...

Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

Research from Norway suggests supermassive black holes and their powerful winds might be the long-sought cosmic cause behind ...

Dozens of 'wandering' black holes could be tumbling through our galaxy right now, new simulations hint. Their existence could ...

NASA has made a jaw-dropping discovery deep in space — black holes acting like cosmic “death stars” shooting energy beams across the universe. Using the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Very Large ...

An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

Black holes are often described as the ultimate no-exit zones of the universe, where gravity becomes so strong that not even light can escape. However, what’s even more intriguing than the black ...

The Hubble Space Telescope captures an image of a supermassive black hole that is not at the center of its galaxy. Credit: NASA / ESA / STScI / Yuhan Yao / Joseph DePasquale Using NASA's Hubble ...

The star-snacking black hole gave itself away when several ground-based sky survey telescopes observed a flare as bright as a supernova. Listen to Story Astronomers used a suite of observatories to ...