Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by huge clouds of material. It's this material, heated by friction and gravity as ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to latter, black hole Gaia BH2, and see what makes it unique. Credit: ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

"This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole," Megan Masterson, a physicist at MIT who co-led the research, said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered what very well may be Earth’s closest black hole.

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," team co-leader and MIT researcher Megan Masterson said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

“This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole,” Megan Masterson, a graduate physics student in at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who was part of a team that made ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.