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.

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

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 million years after the Big Bang and has a mass 9 million times that of the sun.

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.

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

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 and its event horizon. (Image credit: Nicholas Forder/Future Publishing) While the rogue black hole was a rare find, it likely isn't the only one in the cosmos.

Artist's illustration of a black hole with surrounding material. Experts said there is almost zero chance of black hole ever colliding with the Earth.

The weird outbursts of a distant supermassive black hole may be caused by a death-defying white dwarf walking a cosmic tight ...

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 ...