At the center of the Milky Way galaxy exists a supermassive black hole that's more than four million times the sun's mass. A human traveling to the black hole's surface, known as the event horizon and ...

Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...

Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them with fluffy angel-food cake, but researchers at Caltech recently put ...

In the realm of general relativity, black holes are well-known for their ability to trap light and matter by bending spacetime, creating a point of no return. While black holes have fascinated ...

A white dwarf is one of the last stages of life for stars of a certain size, and it's all downhill from there – with no new source of energy, the object will gradually fade away into obscurity. But ...

Black holes are well known for swallowing everything around them, which is probably why they get talked about so often. […] ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new model suggests that merging supermassive black holes will glow in eerie ultraviolet and ...

A new "immersive visualization" will allow users to experience the plunging into a black hole and falling beyond the "point of no return" within the phenomenon, the NASA said in a news release. The ...

At the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy, more than 25,000 light-years from Earth, a supermassive black hole with the mass of 4 million suns is lurking. No one has ever seen this monster, called ...

On the left, in blue, is an X-ray image of an accreting supermassive black hole (shown inset as artwork) composited on an optical image of galaxies in the deep universe. On the right is an ...