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

If we do find a black hole that's close enough, the next challenge is getting there. For that, Bambi proposes the development ...

"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

It took place some 750 million light-years away, flaring into the detectors of the Zwicky Transient Facility on 7 July. At ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers says it has identified the most distant black hole ever confirmed — a cosmic heavyweight that formed ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it ...

Astronomers have discovered the oldest and most distant black hole — a behemoth that likely formed at the dawn of the ...

It sounds like science fiction: a spacecraft, no heavier than a paperclip, propelled by a laser beam and hurtling through ...

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 ...

After years of follow-up study, an international research team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Cosmic Frontier ...