A star called S301 passes Sagittarius A* at 8% of light speed, near enough that the black hole's spin should bend its orbit.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist's impression of a black hole star (not to scale). The cut-out reveals the central black hole with it surrounding accretion ...

There’s a new speed demon in the galaxy. Astronomers spotted a star that reaches top speeds of 25,000 kilometers per second, about 8 percent the speed of light. But the star’s real superpower is its ...

Primordial black holes may occasionally pass through white dwarf stars and trigger enormous Type Ia supernova explosions. Researchers found that these events could explain chemical patterns seen in ...

When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence for the closest supermassive black hole outside of the Milky Way galaxy. This giant black hole is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the nearest ...

A black hole star, shown here in an artist's rendition, exhibits characteristics of both stars and black holes. Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT It’s time to cue up some Chris Cornell and get in the mood, ...

Astronomers may be closing in on a long-standing cosmic mystery: why some of the universe’s biggest galaxies seem to have far fewer stars than expected. Using NASA- and JAXA-supported XRISM ...

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Sgr A* is the name we’ve given to the supermassive black hole that sits at the center of the Milky Way. We’ve known about its presence since the 1970s but only managed to image it within the past few ...