Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

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

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

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

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

While the matte finish reflects a move to more sustainable material, other changes increase the bags’ lifespan and ...