Besides particles like sterile neutrinos, axions and weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), a leading candidate for ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have ...

Right field has long been a land of platoon bats, repositioned infielders and patchwork free-agent signings for Cleveland.

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

A bomb from a black hole would probably be the most destructive weapon in the universe. Now Hendrik Ulbricht of the ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic collision.

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an observation designated GW190412. Credits: © N. Fischer, H. Pfeiffer, A.

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...