Astronomers say they have for the first time observed an area of a black hole predicted by Albert Einstein about 10,000 light-years from Earth. ... It’s like a river, ...

Einstein was right again! Scientists have found the first evidence of general relativity predicted "plunging regions" of space and time where matter inexorably falls into black holes.

Black hole image reveals cosmic first: "Our jaws dropped" 03:20 For the first time, we are seeing an image of one of the most mysterious and fascinating corners of the universe: a black hole with ...

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright ...

A 14-year Hubble Space Telescope study suggests the universe was teeming with supermassive black holes. But how could that be? Skip to main ... Like a river, the flow can sometimes surge, and ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day.. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...