At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Exclusive: Education secretary Bridget Phillipson insists she is unafraid of scheme’s soaraway popularity, describing it as a ...

The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.

At 225 solar masses, this gargantuan merger of two black holes challenges our thinking on these famously elusive objects.

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

In a galaxy some 450 million light-years away, a brilliant flare of light revealed a probable black hole that suddenly woke from its slumber to snack on a passing star.

The new black hole has more than 200 times the mass of our sun – and is challenging theories of how objects form in space ...

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other ...

Everything about the Infinity Galaxy, recently discovered by the JWST, is strange. One odd feature could be the 1st evidence of a "direct collapse" black hole.