The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

This discovery challenges some ideas about how matter organizes around black holes. Contrary to what some models predicted, the detected emissions wouldn't come from a matter jet, but rather from ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

The finding, he adds, “really does make sense.” According to the team’s calculations, the mass of the LMC’s supermassive black hole is 600,000 times that of the sun.

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

This artist’s conception of the mid-IR flare in Sgr A* captures the variability, or changing intensity, of the flare as the black hole’s magnetic field lines approach each other (credit: CfA/Mel Weiss ...

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927’s supermassive black hole (Aurore Simonnet/Sonoma State ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has detected a flare from the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — and it could help explain why these strange outbursts occur..

He added: “If we didn’t have a supermassive black hole in our Milky Way galaxy, there might be many more stars in the sky. “That’s just one example of how black holes can influence a ...