Physicists looked at specific features of light to figure out the closest you can get to a black hole without having to prevent disaster.

How many black holes are out there in the Universe? This is one of the most relevant and pressing questions in modern cosmology.

In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.

In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.

Astronomers have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way’s dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I.

Watch as eight stars skirt a black hole 1 million times the mass of the Sun in these supercomputer simulations.

Astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its vicinity.

A team of international scientists have unveiled the largest number of gravitational waves ever detected.

On isolated mountaintops across the planet, it is time to look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy.

In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.

While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters.

While black holes and toddlers don't seem to have much in common, they are remarkably similar in one aspect: Both are messy eaters.

Black holes are more than just massive objects that swallow everything around them—they're also one of the universe's biggest energy sources

Watching X-rays flung out into the universe by the supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy 800 million light-years away

Nobody knew that the existence of a black hole could prove to be real someday. Wormholes, just like black holes, are a mathematical...

In the vicinity of black holes, space is so warped that even light rays may curve around them several times.

For the first time, scientists detected gravitational waves caused by mergers between black holes and neutron stars.