Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

The Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 26,000 light-years away from us. It is four million times ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

What is a black hole?Well, the name is actually a little misleading because black holes aren't actually holes. They're ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

Pulkeet, age 12, Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one.

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...