The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

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

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Supermassive black holes, the hungry hungry hippos of the universe, aren’t actually that supermassive, apparently. Black holes are mysterious regions in space where gravity is so strong, they can even ...

A supermassive black hole in the far reaches of the Universe has been found guzzling down material at one of the fastest rates ever seen.

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image.

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

A strange cosmic trail discovered in a galaxy is intriguing astronomers with its exceptional dimensions and origin. This ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...