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

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

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

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

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 ...

Scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole flare, the largest seen in the universe, and it may be making a meal of ...

Black holes are eaters of all things, even radiation. But what if their rapacious appetites had an unexpected side effect? A new study published in Physical Review Letters suggests that black holes ...

If a new proposal by physicists bears out, the recent detection of a record-setting neutrino could be the first evidence of elusive Hawking radiation. (Nanowerk News) The last gasp of a primordial ...

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.