An animation of the moment NASA spotted a black hole ripping a star apart and the subsequent explosion helps shed light on ...

The term for this gruesome process is actually " spaghettification ," according to NASA, inspired by Stephen Hawking's book, ...

A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to ...

As you descend toward a black hole, time slows to a crawl and light bends into oblivion. Cross the horizon, and your fate is ...

Yes, science proves it's possible to safely jump into a black hole. But if you're going to try it, you need to know this one ...

Death by black hole isn't always inevitable for stars that exist in binary systems with one of these cosmic titans. There may be a way for small stars in such systems to dodge their expected fates ...

For decades, the supermassive black hole anchoring a galaxy known as SDSS1335+0728 in the Virgo constellation hasn’t displayed much activity. But beginning in late 2019, astronomers noticed it ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87 (M87*). This study ...

But it turns out that this black hole only accelerated about half the stars. The other half got sped up in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is the closest galaxy to our own.

The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long flares as well as short flashes every day.

"Black holes are still, at their core, a mystery. We know that they are big dense objects and that they attract other things to them through gravity, but we haven't gotten close to a black hole." ...