Learn how a supermassive black hole has prevented a dead galaxy that was born soon after the Big Bang from making new stars.

Astronomers have long puzzled over how some massive galaxies stop forming stars and remain dormant for billions of years—even ...

Astronomers at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea discovered clear evidence that a supermassive black hole can reshape a ...

"This result shows that the Event Horizon Telescope is not only useful for producing spectacular images, but can also be used ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

Micro black holes behave very differently from the cosmic giants we usually imagine. This video explains how tiny black holes ...

Scientists have discovered more than 6,000 planets beyond our solar system. What if some of them aren't planets at all, but ...

Astronomers at the University of Warwick have discovered that black holes don't just consume matter—they manage it, choosing ...

What do we really know about black holes? We've only recently even gotten a visual of an actual black hole, so not a lot. But although we can now see a black hole, can we see through a black hole? And ...

A supermassive black hole embedded in an early galaxy likely starved the galaxy of gas needed to form young stars, new ...

Black holes don’t just bend space and time; they expose where our understanding of reality starts to break.  In this video, ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...