These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

The universe seems to be spinning, and that could explain what dark energy is and why it's weakening while revealing our ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the second time a tidal disruption event has been seen in interacting galaxies.

An illustration of the gaseous wind "bullets" firing out of the supermassive black hole PDS 456. Audard et al. / Nature. In their study, the researchers used XRISM to observe the gas outflows from ...