(A study found that the supposed black hole was actually two binary stars orbiting extremely closely to one another). A few months later, a separate team of scientists crowned a new closest black ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

An unlucky star came into contact with a roaming black hole and was ripped apart in a peculiar celestial occurrence.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a supermassive black hole. Normally, supermassive black holes live at the ...

After two decades of observations, a supermassive black hole at the center of a nearby galaxy was discovered spinning, bolstering Albert Einstein's century-old theories of general relativity ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

They're still not certain, but the best explanation appears to be the wake left behind by a supermassive black hole that has been shot free of the galaxy that used to host it. Its liberation ...

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One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have spotted the largest twin jets ever seen erupting from a black hole. The jets stretch for around 23 million light-years, well beyond the limits of their host ...