Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the universe?

It is nearly 1 million degrees Celsius (1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit) of hot plasma stretching far into the Solar System.

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the ...

So, by using light echoes to obtain accurate measures of the mass and spin of a black hole, it would enable giant leaps in ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

The Sombrero galaxy, located approximately 30 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, also hosts about 2,000 ...

Scientists developed a new model, which provides mathematical evidence that singularities are hidden inside black holes.

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...