Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

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

When a star gets too close to a supermassive black hole (SMBH), the star’s fate is sealed. The SMBH’s gravity is overwhelming, and as the star is drawn toward the hole, it is stretched out and ...

With the discovery of Infinity Galaxy, researchers believe they have found evidence of a direct collapse black hole by ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope is set to embark on a deep-sky survey that could capture nearly 100,000 cosmic explosions, ...

A record-breaking black hole collision has stunned scientists with its sheer scale and speed. Detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observatories, the event merged two enormous black holes—each over 100 ...