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

We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...

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

“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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

Black holes don’t just warp space, they sing. And now, for the first time, we’ve figured out what their cosmic echoes really sound like.