Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

Learn how ALMA gives astrophysics a front row seat to dynamic forces that shape the galaxy, called space tornadoes.

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy. NPR’s Nell Greenfieldboyce reports. This ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...