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

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

Supermassive black holes are found at the center of galaxies (including our own) and generally speaking, the bigger the galaxy, the bigger the black hole. Illustration of the black hole ...

Illustration of the "monster" black hole, showing the vast accretion disk swirling around the central black hole. The accretion disc stretches seven light years across and is brighter than 500 ...

A NASA video reveals in stunning detail what falling into a black hole would look like. A NASA astrophysicist used Einstein's general theory of relativity to simulate the wild ride. The black hole ...

Pasham added that a black hole cannot spin faster than 94% the speed of light, or 630,379,631.62 mph (281,804,910.52 m/s), as Kip Thorne calculated in 1974. This maximum is due to the amount of ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

Scientists found the elusive black hole with a mass 10,000 times that of the Sun after it gave off the powerful X-ray flare.

Illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that ...

Illustration of Black Hole Outflow (IMAGE) Chandra X-ray Center. Caption. This is the first of a pair of artist's representations showing what one of the galaxies inside a blob might look ...

An illustration of a type of black hole called a blazar. A blazar is a black hole with a jet of energy that happens to be (harmlessly) aimed at Earth. Credit: M. Weiss / CFA We know, the headlines ...

It’s just ~1500 light-years away, making it the second closest black hole presently known, and at 3.0 solar masses, would be the lightest black hole ever found in our galaxy.