From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...

Shara (AMNH), J. DePasquale (STScI) A group of researchers recently saw a flash of gamma-rays from a distant supermassive black hole that was tens of millions of times larger than the black hole ...

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape. Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two newly discovered systems hint at a survival mechanism. Death by black hole isn't always inevitable for stars that exist in ...

The black hole is so enormous that it makes up roughly 40% of the total mass of its host galaxy: in comparison, most black holes in the local universe are roughly 0.1% of their host galaxy mass.

Scientists believe that at the heart of all large galaxies lurk supermassive black holes, cosmic titans with masses equivalent to that of millions or even billions of suns. Yet some black holes ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

You’ll go from “wait, what’s a black hole?” to confidently explaining quantum physics (or something close to it). Fire it up on any of your devices and let the binge-worthy learning begin.

However thrilling it would be to discover a black hole micro-tunnel on our planet, the researchers also suggest looking elsewhere in our solar system. More specifically, at relatively small ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

Called C4, this source is located close to the path of the jet from the supermassive black hole and is highlighted in the inset. The arms of the "V" are at least about 700 light-years long.