We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive stars, typically weighing ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...