Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a large star and strewn its contents into space," according to NASA. Credit: ...

The revelation comes courtesy of two strange black hole binary systems discovered by the high-precision star-tracking Gaia space telescope. The systems actually contain two of the closest black ...

More and more pulsar accelerations are coming, allowing us to peer into the centers of dense star clusters and hunt for black holes more precisely than ever before." Andrés Bañares Hernández ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled the closest-ever look at a monster black hole devouring its cosmic surroundings. This supermassive black hole, at the heart of a quasar known as 3C 273 ...

Credit: NASA / ESA Black holes are some of the most inscrutable phenomena in space. They don't have surfaces, like a planet or star. Instead, they have a boundary called an "event horizon," or a ...

Black holes are among the oddest objects believed to populate the universe. Long sought, they have recently been "found" lurking in the centers of galaxies, tipping the scales at a million to a ...

Omega Centauri is a massive star cluster with nearly ten million stars located in the constellation Centaurus. For a long time, researchers have noticed that the velocities of stars moving near the ...

One of the most intriguing findings from the map is a strong signal that suggests the rise of gravitational waves due to the merging of supermassive black holes. “The study uncovered further ...

Experts weigh in on how the human race will survive the inevitable famine brought on by nuclear war and it’s not as bad as ...