For decades, black holes have been viewed as the most mysterious and powerful objects in the universe—regions of spacetime ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

Dark Disguise New research is rekindling an old hypothesis about the nature of black holes that could resolve a fundamental ...

"Finding supermassive black holes at the time when the universe was less than 1 billion years old is like finding some mammal bones among the dinosaur bones in a Jurassic sedimentary rock." ...

And the supermassive black hole at its center is shooting an outstretched beam of energy into space. The Hubble Space ...

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the ...