A black hole hiding on the outskirts of a far-off galaxy has just been caught red-handed consuming a star a galactic event ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Black holes are among the most mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe. These cosmic giants form when massive ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

A U.S. gravitational wave detector spotted a collision between fast-spinning “forbidden” black holes that challenge physics ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

This is the first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) and released in 2022.

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...