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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Hubble Space Telescope may have just found a rare "missing link" black hole hiding in Earth's cosmic backyard. Located roughly 6,000 light-years away at the core of the nearby star cluster Messier ...