"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Video Credit: Black Hole Animation NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Jeremy Schnittman Image of Chandra X-Ray Observatory NASA/CXC and J. Vaughan 3 Black Hole Orbits and Slingshots Image from ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

Black holes—the universe's ultimate enigmas. Born from the fiery deaths of massive stars, these cosmic titans twist the very fabric of space and time. These invisible giants warp spacetime ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events.

These black holes typically have masses ranging from about 3 to 20 times the mass of our sun. Sometimes black holes generate beams of ionized gas (plasma) that shoot outward at nearly light speed.