Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

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

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

Each simulation had a slightly different scenario for how the third star may have become a black hole and affected the motions of the other two stars. For example, he simulated a supernova and ...

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE are ravenous black holes that pull gas ... torsion might appear in very strong gravity regimes, for example near classical singularities, where we still do ...

Strangely, the newly merged black hole has a mass that's less than the combined masses of the original pair. For example, in ...

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