We call black holes in this gap lite intermediate mass black holes or lite IMBHs, because they are the least massive black ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave.

Travel to the event horizon in this amazing new black hole visualization from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Credit: ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be a massive star exploding while trying to swallow a black hole companion, offering an ...

A visionary plan proposes sending a paperclip-sized spacecraft, powered by Earth-based lasers, to a nearby black hole within ...

An astrophysicist argues that the interstellar mission would be extremely challenging but not completely unrealistic ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

For a spacecraft like that to reach a black hole in such a relatively short time, there would have to be a black hole 20-25 ...

The black hole, spotted 5 billion light-years away in the Cosmic Horseshoe, could be the most massive ever found.

They wouldn’t last for long, but the emissions from tiny black hole buds could light the way to quantum gravity.

Astronomers using the Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes "have determined that a giant black hole has destroyed a ...

The author, astrophysicist Cosimo Bambi of Fudan University, places the idea “somewhere between hard engineering and science ...