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

At the center of a galaxy 10 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole is the new record holder for brightest flare ...

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...

Falling into a black hole means facing extreme stretching, known as spaghettification, due to immense tidal forces. While ...

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.

It came from nothing less than a supermassive black hole located at the center of a distant galaxy. Although the event ...

In 2017, the EHT collaboration yielded the first-ever image of a supermassive black hole at the center of the Messier 87 ...

Falling into a black hole may sound like something from a science fiction movie, but it is a very real phenomenon studied by ...

Centuries before anyone pointed a telescope at the sky, Isaac Newton figured out how gravity works. He showed that any object with mass pulls on every other object—a result that explained falling ...

Researchers are using black hole “shadow” images to test whether Einstein’s relativity remains unshakable. With next-generation telescopes, they hope to spot telltale signs of alternative physics ...

To solve the mysteries of black holes, a human should just venture into one. However, there is a rather complicated catch: A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and ...