Astronomical amounts of energy could be extracted from black holes—to build a gigantic bomb, for example. Experts have now ...

NASA has discovered a rogue supermassive black hole, devouring a star 600 million light-years away. The cosmic predator - ...

The Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 26,000 light-years away from us. It is four million times ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...

New research challenges the long-accepted notion of singularities in black holes — the point where physics allegedly breaks ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too ...

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...