Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

The brutal star-destroying tidal disruption event is only the second ever seen in interacting galaxies.

Very Large Telescope observations of the galaxy revealed that there was likely a “sudden awakening of the massive black hole ...

A team of international scientists has uncovered a surprising cosmic mystery, thanks to a galaxy nicknamed the Squid Galaxy ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

However, black holes might not just be destructive; they could also be creative. Scientists have just observed a superstorm ...

Astronomers have caught a black hole far from the center of its home galaxy ripping a star to shreds — providing, for the first time, direct evidence of a rogue supermassive black hole in action.

An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black ...

Supermassive black holes shoot energy in bullet-like bursts rather than steady winds, affecting galaxy formation.