These black holes are nicknamed 'blazars' because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth.

Hundreds of lines made from a multitude of gases have been discovered extending outward from the black hole at the center of ...

A new study scheduled to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society examines what astronomers are ...

OK, that was a little click-baity, but then again, so was the announcement this week that a scientist had confirmed Hawking radiation with a lab-grown black hole. It sure got our attention ...

Astronomers have captured hundreds of mysterious filaments pointing toward the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. They ...

The "H" was revealed in an X-ray image of gas that surrounds the black hole in the elliptical galaxy Messier 84 (M84), ...

Discovery of GS-9209, one of the furthest from the Milky Way, adds to evidence that large black holes prevent star formation, astronomers say ...

Learn more. A black hole was discovered lurking quietly in a system just 1,000 light-years from Earth. The black hole, which is part of the system called HR 6819, is the closest black hole ...

Okay, perhaps the title here is a bit of an exaggeration, but this black hole lamp made by [Will Donaldson] is an interesting approach to creating a black hole simulation without destroying the earth.

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of intermediate-sized black holes ...