A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

In a galaxy some 450 million light-years away, a brilliant flare of light revealed a probable black hole that suddenly woke ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, shaping our understanding of space, time, and gravity.

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

A supermassive black hole may have nibbled on the same star twice, once in 2022 and again in 2024. Since the star seemed to ...