black holes

A high-energy particle, thought to have been sent our way by a supermassive black hole hundreds of millions of years ago, has collided with Earth and offered astronomers a rare ...

Scientists have measured with unprecedented accuracy a black hole that is about 660 million times as massive as ...

A gigantic black hole was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. Situated in the NGC 4889 galaxy, which is ...

Scientists think that they've found the second largest black hole in Milky Way, invisible and with a mass ...

Scientists have for the first time witnessed a black hole swallow a star and then quickly eject a ...

Astronomers caught a black hole tearing apart a star in the center of a galaxy about 290 million ...

Neutron stars – the dead stellar remnants of old, burned-out stars – are some of the most extreme ...

Stephen Hawking said something! And again the international media is all a'buzz.

New data from a distant galaxy suggests a puzzling stellar phenomenon may not be what astronomers have long ...

Most black holes have little mass compared to their host galaxy, but a recently discovered black hole grew ...

Radio astronomers are watching a previously dormant black hole wake up in a dramatic display as material falls ...

Quasars emit a light as bright as that of one trillion stars. Scientists think they get their energy ...

Pulsars are very dense neutron stars that are the size of a city (their radius approaches ten kilometres), ...