A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

NASA discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, 52 million light years from Earth. It's 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun a ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human civilisation?

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Stellar-mass black holes typically weigh about 10 times more than our sun, though scientists have discovered a few that are significantly larger. Supermassive black holes are the biggest in the ...

Also known as supermassive black holes, these cosmic monsters can be millions to billions of times more massive than our Sun. They are typically found at the centres of most large galaxies ...