Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmological phenomena out there. Priya Natarajan calls them, "the point where all known laws of physics break down." She's an astrophysicist at Yale ...

A supermassive black hole around a million times the mass of the Sun just gave away its position in spectacular fashion. When a passing star veered a little too close, it was torn apart in the black ...

A cosmic mystery surrounding a black hole some 270 million light-years from the Milky Way is deepening. Now, the black hole has once again demonstrated strange features that teams of astronomers ...

Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012— -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...

The mysteries of a very ancient and massive black hole are being unraveled using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). This supermassive black hole, found in the center of a galaxy named ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. "They are often seen as sort of cosmic vacuum cleaners, just sucking in all the material gas and stars that stray close," says Priyamvada ...

Two supermassive black holes — comprising a binary system — are locked in a chicken fight so intense that it has come to a standstill. And rather than merging, this fight has dragged on for over three ...