But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what scientists ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

GS-z14-0, appears to have taken shape only 250 million years after the universe began. The existence of galaxies so early in cosmic history is already rewriting theories about how galaxies evolve.

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

By looking at radio waves and X-ray emissions, a team of physicists has found the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* to be spinning— and altering space-time around it.

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

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.

An illustration of a black hole visible in our solar system. (Image credit: buradaki/Getty Images) If microscopic black holes born a fraction of a second after the Big Bang exist, ...