The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible,” Albert Einstein once pondered. But even as ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

A controversial theory suggests the observable universe is the result of matter rebounding after the collapse of a black hole ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

In 2017, the EHT captured the first image of a black hole and its environment, imaging M87* located around 53.5 million light-years from Earth. Two years after this image was revealed to the ...

The black hole is often referred to as Sgr A*, pronounced sadge ay star. Its mass is about 4 million times that of the sun, and it's about 27,000 light years from Earth, according to MIT.

One of my favorite celestial objects in the universe is the black hole. Granted, I'm an astrophysicist. But I know I'm not alone. People love black holes. They seem to hold a near-mythic status in ...

"The supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, called Sagittarius A*, has a mass of approximately four million times that of the Sun, but it only looks like a tiny dot from Earth ...