This was true of the black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728, a distant and unremarkable galaxy 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. After being inactive for decades, it ...

The discovery of this black hole triple is also shedding light on the system’s age. The outer star is currently transitioning into a red giant, a phase that occurs near the end of a star’s life.

Artist’s impression of the accretion disc around the massive black hole Ansky and its interaction with a small celestial object Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the ...

A six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) As well as Hubble, researchers also used other instruments like NASA ...

Light behaves in surprising ways near a black hole. Photons that venture too close are swallowed without trace. But others, lucky enough to skim just outside the danger zone, may escape—though ...

Astronomers have uncovered what they say just might be the heaviest black hole we've ever seen. The "ultramassive" black hole is located at the center of a galaxy nearly six billion light years ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

Despite this enormous size, the black hole is actually accreting–or eating–gas at a very low rate. According to the team, it is only accreting about 100 times below its theoretical maximum limit.

But it turns out that this black hole only accelerated about half the stars. The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own.

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating cylinder and magnetic coils. Studying the bomb could help us better ...

This "black hole information paradox" has bedeviled researchers for decades, and they have developed numerous potential solutions. One is known as nonviolent nonlocality.

This new research gives credence to a theory that posits our galaxy is inside of a black hole, which in turn is located inside another, bigger parent universe. Getty According to Space.com, this ...