“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

Lightning might not strike twice, but black holes apparently do. An international group of researchers led by Tel Aviv ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

It’s a light show in space unlike any other. For the first time, scientists have detected light from behind a black hole, and it fulfills a prediction rooted in Albert Einstein’s theory of ...

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

A stargazer with a moderately sized telescope with a 20-cm aperture could potentially see visible light from near the black hole V404 Cygni, located about 7,800 light-years from Earth.

"Any light that goes into that black hole doesn’t come out, so we shouldn’t be able to see anything that’s behind the black hole,” study lead author Dan Wilkins of Stanford University said ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

This particular black hole, 800 million light-years away, was distorting space so much that astronomers could see X-ray explosions flashing behind it.

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, scientists want to follow clues left behind by light that takes a round-a-bout ...

Many black holes are surrounded by disks of searing hot gas that whirl around at nearly the speed of light. Hot spots within these disks sometimes emit random bursts of X-rays, which have been ...