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

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

NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...

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

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

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

As the UK government stares into a £22 Billion deficit black hole, and we all share the doom and gloom of potential tax rises in the autumn budget, ...

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

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