When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Not only are they supermassive black holes, but they crate a unique "wagging tail" of super-charged particles.

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core. The event, dubbed ...

Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and that black holes appeared later. But some have proposed that it went the other ...

“It could lead to a re-evaluation of our models of cosmic evolution.” An artist's illustration of a rapidly feeding black hole that is emitting powerful gas outflows (NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/M.

The data suggest that the black hole launched powerful outflows months after the star’s destruction, showing that black holes ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...

The strong gravity of the black hole (shown as a small black dot at the center of the disk on the right) pulls gas from the companion star (left). As the gas spirals inward, it forms a ...

A cosmic spectacle predicted by Stephen Hawking may be on the horizon as scientists warn of a black hole poised to explode.