The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

This is the first study to show that mutated RAS genes can promote cancer in an entirely new way. Researchers at the NIH have ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, an international cooperation of NASA and the European and Canadian space agencies, a ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

The supergiant star M31-2014-DS1, which has a mass 20 times greater than the sun and is located 2.5 million light-years away ...

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

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the ...

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

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.