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

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

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

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...