Astronomers have observed with unprecedented precision a massive star in the midst of cosmic feasting. This discovery offers ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Black holes are one of our Universe’s greatest mysteries. What are they made of? What happens after they gobble something up?

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...

In its earliest days, Jupiter may have been even more colossal than it is now—twice as large, in fact, with a magnetic field ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

No one knows what would happen if you fell into a supermassive black hole like the one at the center of the Milky Way. To answer this question, NASA researchers created a simulation using the Discover ...

The study by Konstantin Batygin of Caltech and Fred Adams of the University of Michigan pulls off a rare feat in planetary ...