Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s destruction. For the first time, astronomers have detected a tidal disruption event ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.