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 ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

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.

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

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

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

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

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, ...