A team of astronomers has revealed how black holes feed. The study, led by Valeria Olivares from University of Santiago de ...

The universe's most massive black holes fuel themselves by cooling gas around them, astronomers have found. Using data from ...

Australian scientists have identified a larger, venomous species of the Sydney funnel-web spider, 'Big Boy.' Meanwhile, Loft ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...

Space.com was on duty all year to bring you the major developments in the science of the universe's most fascinating entities: black holes. Our fascination with black holes is pretty ...

Recent science updates feature the discovery of a venomous funnel-web spider species in Australia, Loft Orbital's $170 million funding to expand satellite capabilities, Blue Origin's rescheduled New ...

By rendering complex mathematical principles into visually comprehensible representations, Schnittman's work makes the intricacies of black holes more accessible and relatable to the general public.

Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.

Three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes. Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this year's winners at a ...