ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

What if some black holes aren’t black holes at all? A new theoretical study suggests that when a massive star collapses, it ...

Informed by science from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and astronomers worldwide, this “documentary that you can ...

A black hole is supposed to be the last word in stellar collapse: matter falls inward, spacetime caves in, and a singularity ...

Sarah Pappert is a Ph.D. candidate in astrophysics at the TUM School of Natural Sciences and conducts research at the Max ...

A quasar that is the first in the early universe to be found by its flicker, more luminous than 2 trillion suns, could reveal ...

How supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in the centers of galaxies accrete material, how they feed back into the surrounding ...

An illustration of a quasar, powered by an accretion disk of gas and dust swirling into a central supermassive black hole.

A research team says this cone-shaped void amid cold gas may reveal the missing wind from the Milky Way's supermassive black ...

Using just a pen and paper, a team of scientists has calculated how space and time could crystallize to form tiny black holes ...

Under that reasoning, certain exotic structures of spacetime called closed timelike curves may be real—and they may allow a ...