Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

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

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

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

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

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

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 ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...