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

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

V404 Cygni, located 8,000 light years from Earth, is an exceptional subject of study for astrophysicists. This system hosts a ...

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

The supermassive black holes have a combined mass 40 million times that of the Sun and they are about one light-day away from ...

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

It’s been like that since I came here,” says Andrew Porter, a writer who has lived in the same rent-controlled apartment ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

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

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 ...

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

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