In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending ...

A team of researchers has engineered a groundbreaking optical device that mimics the physics of black holes and their ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show! ESA’s XMM-Newton and other X-ray telescopes are capturing massive bursts of ...

Black holes have always been the divas of the cosmos. They are some of the most powerful and mysterious objects […] ...

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

Q: If the gravity of a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light, how has the Hubble Space Telescope recorded images of gas jets ejected from black holes?

The Nikon Z7 II's predecessor, the Z6 II, is an excellent camera — and indeed you'll find it a little further down our list of best cameras for low-light photography. But thanks to a few key ...