The enormous outburst was likely caused by an unfortunate star venturing too close to a supermassive black hole ...

Images of black holes are more than just fascinating visuals: they could serve as a “testing ground” for alternative theories ...

A peculiar object discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope just 700 million years after the Big Bang could reveal the ...

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity, ...

A distant supermassive black hole has unleashed a flare of light so powerful and long-lasting that it has defied every known ...

A mathematical model suggests that when a pair of black holes gets quantum entangled, this can give rise to a lumpy ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever ...

The flare has been going on for seven years as a supermassive black hole consumes a massive star that ventured too close.

Did you see a white fuzzy swirl in the sky Tuesday night around 6 p.m.? No, it wasn’t aliens. That was an exhaust plume from ...