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

This mid-infrared image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope excels at showing where the cold dust, set off in white, glows throughout these two galaxies, IC 2163 and NGC 2207. These eyes are ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

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

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

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

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

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...