In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

When two enormous black holes collide in deep space, they send shockwaves rippling across the universe. These shockwaves, ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

"We would like to understand the difference between these systems, which holds the clue to understand just how many cosmic rays are produced in the jets of microquasars." ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

The black hole, called Sagittarius A* ... and untangled in a process similar to that which produces flares in the Sun’s atmosphere.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured stunning images of black holes, revealing their energy and interactions with surroundings. These images sho ...

Han and his colleagues realized that this black hole must exist when they were studying so-called hypervelocity stars. These stars whiz through space at the mind-bending speed of several million miles ...

Astronomers have found strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy near the Milky Way. This newly identified black hole is the closest one known ...