A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

A bold new proposal envisions launching laser-propelled nanocraft to a nearby black hole to test Albert Einstein's theory of ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

The Webb telescope found that a far-off little red dot is the oldest known black hole, shrouded by gas that could help explain the ruby color.