A new discovery drastically reduces the distance between us and the nearest known black holes. Here's why you don't need to be alarmed, yet.

It turns out there is life after stellar death. Say hello to zombie worlds, undead planets orbiting the most extreme objects in the universe.

A new simulation says that black holes are eating neutron stars and lighting up our telescopes with mysterious bursts of energy.

We know that black holes are bizarre. We know they exist. We even have a picture of one. But what exactly are they?

The late physicist Stephen Hawking predicted that black holes evaporate as its massive tidal forces interfere with quantum particles. Now, experiments are starting to confirm his predictions.

The Event Horizon Telescope's image of M87* is so good that theorists thought it was too good to be true.

New observations of the center of our galaxy have, for the first time, revealed hotspots in the disk of chaotic gas orbiting our Milky Way's supermassive black hole.

Black holes aren't just the densest, most massive objects in space. They might also be some of the fastest.

After Interstellar, more and more representations of black holes are leaning towards scientific correctness. It may not sound like much, but it's actually kind of a big deal.

Despite their fearsome reputation, we simply wouldn't exist without black holes.

Stephen Hawking hasn't actually solved the black hole information paradox and his latest work raises more questions than it provides answers.

Let's say the worst happened and you've been sucked into a black hole as your body was torn apart. So, what happens to you next?

Black holes are such complex entities that just being trapped in one's gravity creates a cascade of paradoxes...

The bizarre, extremely fast radio bursts astronomers have been detecting might be the result of doomed neutron stars...

Tracking the speed of an event horizon can tell us what a black hole ate, give us a clue as to how it was formed, and whether it survived a major collision.