Black holes are mysterious objects, and scientists have a lot to learn about them. So much, in fact, that they didn't think ...

Astronomers using the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and the Very Large Array (VLA) have caught a supermassive black hole in ...

Learn more about the discovery of a nearby black hole that we could be exploring in the coming decades.

Sheffield Council is to freeze recruitment for six months as it grapples with a budget gap of more than £28m. The authority ...

It's August, which means Hot Science Summer is two-thirds over. This week, NASA released an exceptionally pretty photo of ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more.