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 .

As per a report from Space.com, researchers used sophisticated models and observations to learn that very massive stars give ...

What’s really inside a black hole? Long considered one of the greatest cosmic mysteries, black holes were first predicted in 1916 through Einstein’s theory of relativity. Yet it wasn’t until the 1960s ...

The black hole wrapped the layers of the shredded star around itself to form the perfect doughnut of doom.

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...

At the heart of the galaxy M87 is the first supermassive black hole ever imaged by humanity, and now, researchers have remastered that image to see the cosmic titan in greater detail.

By using light to emulate the structure of space-time, researchers can better understand black holes – and the exotic objects ...

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion, called a ...

A black hole's event horizon, also called the Schwarzschild radius, is the radius within which its gravity supersedes all other forces of nature. Inside a black hole's event horizon, gravity is so ...

In this recent study, the research team attempted to take that black hole bomb concept from idea to reality—or, at least, take the first step towards reality by creating a toy model.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

It might sound like the culmination of a Bond villain's latest evil scheme. But the world's first 'black hole bomb' has officially become a reality.