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

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

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

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass ...

The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back upon itself, and it is so strange that even simple concepts such as ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is defying conventional understanding. Growing ...