At the heart of this cosmic revelation lies Palomar 5, a stellar stream stretching across 30,000 light-years of space. Located approximately 80,000 light-years from Earth, this celestial wonder ...

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.

The supermassive black hole located at the heart of the M87 galaxy is home to one of the most impressive natural patterns in nature. ... from the shape of a shell to the course of a river.

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 ...

Light sliding along the outside of a black hole is the key to understanding what’s inside, Stephen Hawking says. The proposal from the world’s most famous living physicist, presented August 25 ...

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 ...

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 ...