Anyone who has watched Matthew McConaughey plunge into a supermassive black hole in "Interstellar" may think they have a rough idea of what it'd be like to encounter one of these terrifying cosmic ...

At the center of the Milky Way galaxy exists a supermassive black hole that's more than four million times the sun's mass. A human traveling to the black hole's surface, known as the event horizon and ...

On the left, in blue, is an X-ray image of an accreting supermassive black hole (shown inset as artwork) composited on an optical image of galaxies in the deep universe. On the right is an ...

Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them with fluffy angel-food cake, but researchers at Caltech recently put ...

A new "immersive visualization" will allow users to experience the plunging into a black hole and falling beyond the "point of no return" within the phenomenon, the NASA said in a news release. The ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths between millions and billions of times heavier than our sun that lurk at the centers of most galaxies in our universe, including our own Milky Way — and they're ...