In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...

Astronomers have recorded the most luminous flare ever emitted by a black hole—an event so extreme it briefly outshone the ...

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) black hole 10 billion light-years away, J2245+3743, made the biggest and brightest flare ever ...

Back on planet Earth, and deep inside a pitch-black, sulfuric cave on the Albanian-Greek border, we reported on a study that ...

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Scientists record the clearest black hole collision signal yet, confirming Stephen Hawking’s key prediction about black hole ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

Auroras could be visible — especially in darker, rural areas — in Alaska, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North ...

The Event Horizon Telescope only recently gave us the first images of the environment immediately surrounding a black hole.

Analysis suggests that the most luminous burst of light ever detected from a black hole — a fireworks show that was, at its peak, more than 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun — flared up as the ...

A stellar-mass black hole 33 times heavier than the sun has been discovered only 2,000 light years from Earth, making it both ...

Earth's atmosphere is an impediment to astronomical observations. Not only is cloudy weather a problem, but temperature ...