Every time this doomed star plunges through a supermassive black hole's accretion disk, it loses orbital energy and triggers ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

The predictions above have serious mathematical credentials, but at the end of the day, the nature of the singularities are still unknown. So, too, is the state of matter inside a black hole.

Astronomers have spotted around a dozen of these weird, rare blasts. Could they be signs of a special kind of black hole?

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

The blazar BL Lacertae, a supermassive black hole surrounded by a bright disk and jets oriented toward Earth, provided ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

An experimental setup mimics a “black hole bomb” first theorized in 1971. The spinning cylinder with circuitry is true to the original idea, showing that it can be plausible. Electrical waves ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space. "We think most black holes form from violent explosions of ...