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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

It's believed that a dead stellar remnant, or white dwarf, could be spinning precariously on the edge of the black hole, causing the explosions of high-energy light. “This would be the closest thing ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered what very well may be Earth’s closest black hole.

"This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole," team co-leader and MIT researcher Megan Masterson said in a statement. "This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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

Those are the areas nearest the black hole where matter accumulates and heats up as it spirals in. Measuring that region is important since knowing the black hole's mass and its accretion disk's ...

“This would be the closest thing that we know of around any black hole,” Ms Masterson said . “This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon ...