Sitting in a dark planetarium, kids of all ages had stars in their eyes on Friday as they learned about black holes and Earth science from working NASA scientists. The scientists on Friday ...

Observations of a supermassive black hole located 55 million light-years away from Earth have revealed something completely unexpected: Its magnetic field has flipped. The black hole, dubbed ...

Scientists say they detected the largest-ever merger of two black holes, forming one that is 225 times the mass of the sun, adding that the new discovery "pushes the limits of" how astronomers ...

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before. According to a new analysis of a "little red dot" (LRD) nicknamed The Cliff, ...

Black holes are one big mystery. Even the name, black hole, is a bit of a mystery in the sense that these fascinating cosmic objects are not holes at all. In fact, there is nowhere else in ...

The magnetic field swirling around an enormous black hole, located about 55 million light-years from Earth, has unexpectedly switched directions. This dramatic reversal challenges theories of ...