In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

The Event Horizon Telescope has captured an image of a ring of light around the Black Abyss, a black hole about 55 million light years away.

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

Two of the universe’s most extreme objects—black holes and neutron stars—can spiral into cosmic collisions that crack crusts, ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...