Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

Supermazes” are theoretical structures that provide a fresh blueprint for understanding the microscopic complexity of black ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on its outside, a finding ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching colossal jets of energy, something once thought possible only in elliptical ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

“This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole’s behavior in real time, using X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and NASA’s NICER, Chandra and Swift,” said Dr. Lorena ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...