Astronomers have discovered filaments of matter swirling tornado-like around the heart of the Milky Way, home to the ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the most well-studied galaxies, but new findings suggest it might have been holding a ...

Don't worry, there's no need to be concerned of encountering a black hole anytime soon, but here's what would happen to your ...

Astronomers have uncovered a baffling cosmic anomaly — a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 5084 that appears to be ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

Astronomers have discovered a record-breaking black hole moving at over 1,000 km/s, believed to have been ejected after ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

Languages: English and Italian. Scientists at Dartmouth and the University of Exeter have discovered that radiation emitted by supermassive black holes can have a surprising, nurturing effect on life.

Although black hole radiation can be catastrophic in some cases, it may assist life once oxygen has accumulated in the planet ...