Strange matter only occurs under very specific circumstances -- and astrophysicists are getting closer to understanding what ...

Astronomers have uncovered new details about the black hole that ripped apart a star in a tidal disruption event named ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously ...

Of the known things in the universe, black holes are among the most extreme. They pack huge amounts of mass densely into a ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Scientists have proposed a new method for finding tightly bound supermassive black hole pairs by searching for stars that flash repeatedly as their light is magnified by the black holes’ gravity. The ...

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

An artist’s rendering of a black hole like the one in the center of our galaxy. While the black disk in the center is the ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. And they understand how certain ...