If there is a black hole, it's at least 20 times farther from Earth than the furthest planet, Neptune, in a distant region of our solar system called the extended Kuiper Belt. The belt is home to ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes for the last several years. First came a surprise ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...

For context, that's around 175 times the distance between the sun and the closest star to the solar system, Proxima Centauri. Jets from supermassive black holes don't come from the black holes ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

Planet X, also called Planet Nine, is a hypothetical planetary body seven times the mass of Earth lurking behind Pluto. If ...

marks the first time that a binary star system has been observed in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole, according to a press release. Astrophysicists behind the find claim the discovery not ...