While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

Don't worry, there's no need to be concerned of encountering a black hole anytime soon, but here's what would happen to your ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

Famed physicist Stephen Hawking took gravity to its ultimate limits. In doing so, he made a number of significant ...

While that might sound huge, the newly identified supermassive black hole has a much lower mass than others. Sagittarius A*, for example, has four million times the sun’s mass, and other ...

Explaining how "dangerous" black holes are, Professor Natarajan shared an example of what would happen if she went near one of the black holes. "Suppose I went in head first. The difference in the ...

They happen when a black hole ingests huge quantities of gas or even stars and expels high-energy particles and radiation. One such example is the supermassive black hole at galaxy SDSS J1354+1327 ...

Earlier black hole models assumed perfect symmetries not found in nature, positing, for example, that a star was a perfect sphere before collapsing into a black hole, or that it had no net electrical ...

Matteo Paz built a machine-learning algorithm in high school to analyze heaps of data for NASA. He just won a $250,000 ...