Learn what a black hole is, how it forms, and how astronomers detect it. Understand the science behind black holes and their ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

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

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

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

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object ...

Dark energy and black holes are two of the most mysterious topics when it comes to space, but they might actually be linked. And causing the universe to expand.

A distant black hole devoured a whole star and burped a massive light flare, as bright as 10 trillion suns. According to a ...

For the first time, scientists have the calculations and simulations to explain mysterious flashes from the galaxy OJ 287.

One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin defines our days, setting the fundamental rhythm of life on our world. The moon spins, too.