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It's time to think far outside of the box regarding our preconceptions of how to find extraterrestrial civilizations.

Scientists have found evidence that a giant black hole has been jerked around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before.

Alpine cities shimmer, "backward" black holes show their jet power, Earth crumples the moon, and more in the week's best space pictures.

Astronomers using ESO's Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found.

New results from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest that a dense stellar remnant has been ripped apart by a black hole a thousand times as massive as the Sun. I

Astronomers have accurately measured the distance from Earth to a black hole for the first time.The astronomers came up with a distance of 7800 light years, much closer than had been assumed until now.

An international team of scientists has observed four super-massive black holes at the center of galaxies, which may provide new information on how these central black hole systems operate.

We’ve all seen at least one movie in which our planet is destroyed, but most of them were quite repetitive and kind of uninteresting. Our planet deserves so much more!

It may sound like science fiction, but freakish galactic events such as ravenous black holes and ripples in the space-time continuum could be happening all around us. according to new research from Swinburne University of Technology.

What exactly is a black hole, anyway? Listen in as 11 top physicists and astronomers take on the challenge of describing the strangest entities in the universe.