"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

The bold question-askers at What If imagine the cosmic consequences of a collision between a black hole and a white hole.

The bold question-askers at What If explore why having a black hole in our Solar System would be a catastrophic scenario.

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest black hole ever seen, feeding voraciously about 400 million years after the Big Bang. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com ...

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 ...

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So, a black hole that is quiet today may have once been a quasar, and the quasars we see in the distant past will eventually “turn off” after they’ve eaten everything around them. Alison Klesman ...

Scientists previously clocked a supermassive black hole hurtling through space at 5 million mph (7.2 million km/h), they reported in 2017 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape.Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.