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

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 ...

Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

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

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

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

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

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

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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...