A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars. Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their ...

They are some of the universe's most unusual and fascinating objects. And now a study suggests that black holes might be even stranger than we thought. NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory has ...

Astronomers have used Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope to gain a unique view of a vast black hole that is powering a glowing ‘quasar’. The new Hubble view of the area around the black hole has revealed a ...

A NASA study estimates 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden, shrouded by gas and dust, doubling earlier estimates. Explore how these elusive giants shape our understanding of galaxies.

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have found an unusual mark from a giant black hole's powerful jet striking an ...

Scientists have uncovered two gargantuan black holes, a discovery that astrophysicist Lorena Hernandez-Garcia from the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics calls a "very weird event". This ...

The torus can obscure light that's generated by material falling into the black hole. Observations by NASA telescopes have helped scientists identify more of these hidden black holes. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The full Chandra image, with C4 circled in yellow. (NASA/CXC/SAO/D. Bogensberger et al.) It also has a very active supermassive black hole and is bursting with star formation, one of the closest ...

NuSTAR's observations were then matched up with data about the same feeding supermassive black hole from NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope. The new findings could help explain how the early ...