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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Do black holes destroy information? Physicists have been trying to answer that question for decades, because the idea that ...

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