Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...