Astronomers believe they have spotted an elusive intermediate-mass black hole shredding a distant star, and they have ...

The first black hole images stunned the world in 2019, with headlines announcing evidence of a glowing doughnut-shaped object ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hunted supermassive black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies — but ...

These star-shredding black holes sit within dusty galaxies that block many telescopes’ views. That’s not an issue for JWST.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has made its mark by capturing its first-ever observations of tidal disruption events ...

Star AT 2022dbl wandered close to black hole but was only partially destroyed; Tel Aviv University researchers say discovery ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare type of black hole tucked in a star cluster approximately 40,000 light-years away. Officially designated NGC 6099 HLX-1, this black hole was found after NASA 's ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...