Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies that are heavily distorted. This spectacular image is caused by the presence ...

Scientists Say They Have Just Discovered The Heaviest Black Hole — Weighing 36 Billion Times The Mass of The Sun Astronomers ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

A new class of cosmic explosions — which emit more energy than any other brightness-changing event — may come from megastars getting shredded by supermassive black holes (illustrated).

The new research, led by Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro from the Institute of Physics at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, used a combination of gravitational lens modeling and detailed stellar ...

In a remarkable cosmic discovery, NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected a surprisingly powerful jet emerging from a supermassive black hole located 11.6 billion light-years from Earth.