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

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

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

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

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

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

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

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

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

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