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 ...

A groundbreaking new study proposes that black holes, which absorb everything into an inescapable void, may eventually ...

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 ...

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. […] ...

It's been less than two months since scientists released the first actual image of a black hole, but astronomers have been studying the strange phenomena for more than a century. One modern tool: ...

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 ...

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 ...