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 ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

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.

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 ...

A galaxy, SDSS1335+0728, has awakened after 20 years of inactivity. Located 300 million light-years away, it shows significant brightness changes. Its black hole, one million times the Sun's mass ...

Humans are quite rightly fascinated by black holes, but could we ever harness them as an energy source? New research poses this question in order to explore some of the most wonderous cosmic events.