In 2019, researchers detected gravitational waves that indicated that two black holes were merging. These were two fairly ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole within a galaxy just 570 million years after the Big Bang. Part of a class of ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

ASTRONOMERS have identified 53 previously unknown quasars powered by supermassive black holes whose jets hurl matter at ...