Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

We know firsthand that NASA’s bureaucracy is frustrating and inefficient. Reform is necessary, but it must be considered and ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

Scientists have identified a new class of cosmic explosions, dubbed 'extreme nuclear transients' (ENTs), that represent the ...

The black holes sit in the centres of faraway galaxies. They stayed dark for years before tearing into massive stars. After ...

Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black ...

Dubbed AT2024tvd, the burst of radiation from this " tidal disruption event " (TDE) was also picked up by NASA's Chandra ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...

Meet "Space Jaws." NASA coined the moniker inspired by Steven Spielberg's famous 1975 film for the supermassive black hole after the agency's telescopes uncovered it lurking like a cosmic predator ...

"Black holes are the ultimate cosmic fossils," Jani said. "The masses of black holes reported in this new analysis have remained highly speculative in astronomy. This new population of black holes ...