Scientists have tapped into gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics to confirm the existence of a black hole with 36 ...

A galaxy billions of light years from Earth houses what may be the most massive black hole in the universe, equivalent to ...

Astronomers have discovered potentially the most massive black hole ever detected. The cosmic behemoth is close to the ...

An ambitious plan to test extreme physics close to a black hole would involve a space probe weighing only a few grams, ...

What’s in the middle of the Milky Way? In our neck of the cosmos, everything revolves around a supermassive black hole.

In fact, only three factors can be used to define a black hole: its mass, its angular momentum and its electric charge. In ...

"Its special properties make the galaxy an ideal candidate for further research into merging black holes and the associated ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more. This discovery upends conventional wisdom about such tidal disruption ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into a shape that can look like a football," according to the Chandra X-ray ...

It seems obvious, then, that, cosmically speaking, everything spins—but this basic fact becomes downright bizarre in the head ...