Black holes are dubbed “black” because their inescapable tug of gravity on light renders them invisible to the naked eye. Scientists can, however, look at the distorted spacetime around a black hole ...

The giant black hole TON 619 dominates this graphic. On right: Also in orange, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The mass ...

Astronomers think they have detected an extremely rare type of "missing link" black hole chowing down on a helpless star at the edge of a distant galaxy — and they've shared a stunning animation ...

Researchers have never been able to observe a black hole, but they can observe the effect they have on the objects around them. An animation released by the UCLA Galactic Center Group shows stars ...