"In principle, extraction is possible, and it could be a clean and efficient solution to the complex energy problems we will ...

At the heart of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, lurks a supermassive black hole. These cosmic giants periodically consume interstellar gas, switching into active galactic nucleus ...

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

A previously dormant supermassive black hole in the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located roughly 300 million light-years from Earth, ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Black hole jets may accelerate and brighten with distance, challenging old models, according to new EHT observations.

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.

New theories suggest these elusive black holes might leave traces in more familiar places—like planets, asteroids, or even deep beneath Earth’s ... signs is minimal compared to the potential ...

Scientists have discovered a colossal water reservoir in space, containing as much water as 100 trillion times all the oceans ...