If you scroll through social media lately, you've probably noticed something twinkling in the background of countless posts: ...

Black holes don’t emit any light, so the image shows the black hole’s silhouette against a glowing background of hot plasma swirling around and being pulled into Sagittarius A*.

IN SPACE - MAY 12: In this handout photo provided by NASA, This is the first image of Sgr A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy, with an added black background to fit wider ...

Galaxy IC 5249 (circled) is a spiral galaxy viewed edge on from Earth. That galaxy looks similar to a trail of light previously suggested to be stars that formed in the wake of a runaway black ...

The XMM Newton space telescope has seen a feeding supermassive black hole as it throws a galaxy-sized tantrum ‘flipping over the table’ and preventing its parent galaxy from birthing new stars.