Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

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

Astronomers have uncovered new evidence that helps solve one of space’s biggest mysteries—the existence of intermediate-mass ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

Astronomers discover more than 100 hidden black holes in a star cluster, revealing surprising movements in ancient galactic ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes is wreaking havoc, consuming stars and accelerating the cycle of star ...

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

This discovery led to the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics. When massive objects like black holes collide, they crash into one another with such force that it vibrates the fabric of spacetime ...