With METIS and MICADO, two instruments for what will be the largest optical telescope in the world, the Extremely Large ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.

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

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

Exploding stars known as supernovas may have sparked mass extinctions that wiped out up to 85% of animals on Earth.

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...