Cygnus X-1 was the first ever black hole discovered in the year 1960 which had 10 times more mass than the sun. It is galaxy ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Black holes don’t have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.