Black holes usually bring to mind gigantic monsters lurking in the depths of space. They swallow stars, bend light, and ...

Something strange is happening on the outskirts of our Solar System. It could be a large, mysterious planet. Or, it could be ...

NEW YORK -- A star was shredded apart by a black hole and a scientist's keen observation set off a chain of events that allowed the phenomenon to be captured on several different satellite cameras.

Pair instability supernovae create a "mass gap" in black holes. Only tangentially related, but seeing an article about black holes got me thinking about a question, and I wonder if any physicists have ...

Many of the early exoplanet discoveries were exciting on their own, confirming that there really were strange new worlds out in the Universe. But over time, our focus has shifted more toward numbers, ...

A runaway black hole leaving a streak of new stars in its wake. James Webb Space Telescope / van Dokkum et al. Last year, astronomers were fascinated by a runaway asteroid passing through our Solar ...