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New observations of the first black hole ever detected have led astronomers to question what they know about the Universe’s most mysterious objects. Published today in the journal Science, the...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, which produced the first-ever image of a black hole, has today revealed a new view of the massive object at the center of the...

There are two ways to build a supermassive black hole. But neither of them makes much sense. About 10 million light-years from Earth, a blurry galaxy named Mirach’s Ghost may...

The supermassive black hole hiding in the center of our galaxy is much closer to Earth, about 2,000 light-years closer, than scientists thought, according to new research out of Japan....

Powerful jets launched from Sagittarius A* may have stripped the stars’ atmospheres away. Beginning in the 1990s, astronomers noticed a disturbing lack of red giant stars in the Milky Way’s...

In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have found the most distant quasar yet known — and it’s home to a seriously supermassive black hole. Astronomers led by researchers at the University...

A US Navy veteran has claimed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAP) that was spotted by pilots from the USS Nimitz may have opened up a black hole to travel as...

Astronomers have spotted a mystery object that they say could be a black hole or a neutron star. Both black holes and neutron stars are the remains of dead stars....

It wasn’t the universe-starting Big Bang, but it might be the biggest explosion since. Astronomers say they’ve detected a black hole-triggered explosion so large that it could have obliterated our...

Scientists think that they’ve spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy. Of course, scientists can’t see any black holes directly — but new research...