NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Astronomers have discovered a binary star system near the Milky Way's black hole, Sagittarius A*, suggesting planets may also ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

2024 saw a number of successful moon landings by Japan, Intuitive Machines, and SpaceX, while the Boeing Starliner stranded ...

Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Scientists have spotted what appear to be two stars whipping around each other near the supermassive black hole at the center ...

After taking the first images of black holes, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is poised to reveal how black holes launch ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...