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

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

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

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

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

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

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

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

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

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 ...

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

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