Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

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

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

A massive spiral galaxy with a giant black hole is shooting huge energy jets, something scientists thought only elliptical ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

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

These detections have not relied on energy being emitted from black hole environments; instead, astronomers have found them by observing stars that orbit these massive objects “wobble” in ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

A terrifying glimpse at one potential fate of our Milky Way galaxy has come to light thanks to the discovery of a cosmic ...

Spiral galaxy J2345−0449, 947 million light-years away from us in the constellation of Aquarius, is a very unusual object ...