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

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

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

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...