The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

We measure the extremely long distances between things in space by light years. A light year is the distance that light travels in one Earth year. Light travels at about 300,000 kilometres per second.

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

ASKAP J0107–2347 uncovers an ancient black hole event and unearths relics of galactic prehistory. More of these double-lobed Giant Radio Galaxies could be discovered in future ASKAP surveys, helping ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

A black hole will cross over Saturn in the coming days, although it is not really a black hole in the real sense. Saturn is currently aligned with Earth in a manner that makes this celestial event ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

Science Never-before-seen black hole stuns scientists: “It looks nothing like normal” Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...