An international collaboration of physicists including researchers at Washington University in St. Louis has made ...

The EHT captured a surprising polarization reversal around M87*, pointing to rapidly changing magnetic fields near the black ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

You've heard the Soundgarden song, but how about a real Black Hole Sun collision? Most black holes are the remnants of massive stars. Would our Sun survive the collision, or could a black hole make ...

Monster black holes entered the cosmic scene soon after the Universe’s birth and grew rapidly, reaching millions or even ...

Black holes, regions of spacetime in which gravity is so strong that nothing can escape, are intriguing and extensively ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star—at least 30 times the mass ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

A supermassive black hole violently gobbled up an enormous star, producing a gargantuan cosmic outburst, according to a new ...