A planet orbiting a supermassive black hole would experience one of the strangest environments imaginable. Light from the ...

Black Holes are the scariest, strangest, most horrifying objects in the Universe. So what if I threw you into one? As you ...

A massive star 2.5 million light-years away simply vanished — and astronomers now know why. Instead of exploding in a supernova, it quietly collapsed into a black hole, shedding its outer layers in a ...

What kind of physics is happening inside a black hole? Scientists have a lot of ideas, but taking any concrete measurements is borderline impossible—that is, unless you want to be spaghettified or ...

An artist's concept of a tidal disruption event (TDE), which happens when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole. The gravity of the black hole pulls material from the star and launches a ...

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes the ...