One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

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

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

How are supermassive black holes born? That is the question astronomer Elena Maria Rossi is trying to answer. But how do you investigate something you cannot see? Supermassive black holes are the ...

In the new study, researchers statistically calculated that supermassive black holes in some of the early galaxies seen by ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

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

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The supermassive black hole only reveals itself once every tens of thousands of years. It has gone rogue and is on a killing ...