The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Glasgow University scientists have developed a new dance mimicking ripples of spacetime first theorised by Albert Enstein.