Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

Astronomers detect signs of a massive, invisible black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, which may collide with the Milky ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

The core of a massive cluster of galaxies appears to be pumping out far more stars than it should. Now researchers at MIT and ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...