Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Strange Universe Like a parasite sucking the life force out of its host, an international group of scientists have determined ...

Scientists have discovered the longest pair of jets streaming from a black hole in a distant galaxy. The jets shooting hot ...

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

The jets shoot out from opposite sides of a black hole at the heart of a massive galaxy 7.5 billion light-years from Earth.CreditCredit...S. Landis & K. Rappaport (Science Communication Lab) ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

An issue called the final parsec problem detailed the theoretical difficulty in bringing supermassive black holes close ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn’t ...

One key characteristic of a supermassive black hole is the duo of the extragalactic jets of material that form around its ...