Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a large black hole inside the neighbouring ...

The strange behavior of hypervelocity stars suggests a nearby dwarf galaxy must contain a supermassive black hole. If so, a ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

The Milky Way can be seen as something of a bully, having devoured many smaller galaxies to achieve its vast mass, and ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

In the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, two gigantic "bubbles" extend roughly 50,000 light-years above and below the galactic ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...