By: Miriam Kramer Published: 05/08/2013 08:25 AM EDT on SPACE.com The huge, hot mess of cosmic gas that feeds the colossal black hole at the cente...

By: Miriam Kramer Published: 05/06/2013 05:49 PM EDT on SPACE.com Two NASA space telescopes have captured what appears to be the most powerful sta...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 05/02/2013 02:07 PM EDT on SPACE.com In the next five years or so, scientists are poised to discover proof that spa...

By: Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor Published: 04/10/2013 08:07 AM EDT on LiveScience "Dark lightning" that is almost invisible wit...

By: Megan Gannon Published: 03/31/2013 11:04 AM EDT on SPACE.com Astronomers have spotted a star in our galaxy that races around a black hole at ...

By John Matson Fifty years ago, in the journal Nature, astronomer Maarten Schmidt published a brief paper noting that a star-like object known as 3...

A supermassive black hole's speed of rotation, the jaw of a prehistoric predator, and brain-to-brain communication are just a few of the top science s...

By: Nola Taylor Redd Published: 02/28/2013 02:17 PM EST on SPACE.com Astronomers studying an unusual black hole system have spotted a never-before...

By: Tia Ghose Published: 02/20/2013 08:01 AM EST on SPACE.com Six speedy stars rocketing through space at up to 2 million miles per hour were li...

Until the early 1970s, no one could see any relevance of these curious objects to what one might call everyday physics.

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Writer Published: 01/07/2013 04:49 PM EST on SPACE.com LONG BEACH, Calif. – Astronomers have discovered what ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Jahnavi Prasanna, Student, Programmer Yes, it is believed that black holes can evaporate.The...

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 12/19/2012 03:30 PM EST on SPACE.com A number of the largest black holes in the universe may be even bigger than pr...

By: Nola Taylor Redd, SPACE.com Contributor Published: 12/05/2012 01:14 PM EST on SPACE.com A cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by the brightest ob...

By: Tia Ghose, LiveScience Staff Published: 10/30/2012 11:00 AM EDT on LiveScience Since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the popular imagination has ...

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 10/19/2012 03:48 PM EDT on LiveScience A woman concerned that the Large Hadron Collider...

By: Clara Moskowitz Published: 08/29/2012 02:50 PM EDT on SPACE.com A jackpot of previously unknown black holes across the universe has been disc...

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 08/23/2012 07:16 AM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists investigated our galaxy's central molecular zone, which contains th...

The Golden Ratio, usually denoted by the Greek letter ϕ (phi), has the propensity of popping up where least expected, in a variety of natural phenomena and works of art.

Stephen Hawking has made rather pessimistic wagers about them, and no one has yet seen them up close. Yet despite all of this, the near mythological objects we now call black holes turn out to play a noisy role in making the cosmos appear the way it does.

By: Charles Q. Choi Published: 08/02/2012 02:58 PM EDT on SPACE.com Black holes have long been cosmic mysteries, even as research in the past deca...

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 08/01/2012 08:13 AM EDT on SPACE.com A NASA space telescope designed to hunt for black holes and other mysteries ...

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 07/18/2012 10:55 AM EDT on SPACE.com Scientists using three telescopes spaced thousands of miles apart have caugh...

By: SPACE.com Staff Published: 07/03/2012 04:20 PM EDT on SPACE.com NASA's newest space telescope has opened its X-ray eyes to take its first pi...