The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes ...

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

Astronomers theorize that a low-mass white dwarf, a compact core of a dead star about as large as Earth, could be the culprit. A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light ...

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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 ...

In pursuit of understanding these celestial bodies, astronomers have stumbled upon a supermassive black hole, located a whopping 12.9 billion light-years from Earth, and it's doing something ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A group of researchers recently simulated the event horizon of a man-made black hole in ...

When the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole — the one at the center of the Messier 87 galaxy some 55 million light-years away from Earth — was revealed to the world in 2019 ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...