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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...

While peering into the galaxy using JWST's infrared vision, researchers discovered outflows of gas surrounding the hungry ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration managed to capture the 1st image of the Milky Way's black hole in what was a ...

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