The jets of material that spew from black holes catalyze stellar eruptions, surprising astronomers and raising questions ...

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

Latin America isn’t immune to the wave of repression washing over the world, with increasingly nasty consequences that its ...

New research suggests that black holes may actually be "frozen stars," bizarre quantum objects that lack a singularity and an ...

Researchers at MIT suggest that the microscopic "primordial black holes" could be blasting through our solar system at least ...

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has around 150 ...

Black holes are mysterious objects. One longstanding question has been whether rotating black holes, which are so powerful ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are on a collision course. The Chandra team explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...