New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Black holes are expected to be the last giant objects left in the universe, but even they will slowly shrink and disappear ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies that are heavily distorted. This spectacular image is caused by the presence of a massive object in the foreground: a black hole with an ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by SYSTEM Sounds. The Chandra team explains how it was done.

The monster black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning at near "top speed," according to a new artificial intelligence (AI) model. The model, trained partially on complex telescope data ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe ...

At the heart of a black hole lies what’s called a “singularity” — a point where our laws of physics break down, and gravity becomes infinite. But the defining edge of a black hole is the event horizon ...

A few, however, carry extreme energy: more than a million times what particle accelerators on Earth can produce. A new study suggests that those monsters are born in the churning magnetic fields of ...

A powerful new technique is poised to revolutionize how astronomers observe black holes, by producing sharp, multicolored ...

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

There are objects in our universe so dense that not even light escapes through them. These oddities, known as supermassive black holes, can weigh billions of times more than our sun. Scientists have ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...