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

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 ...

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

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

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published more than a century ago and and it could save Earth from a black ...

Scientists have strengthened the potential connection between dark energy and black holes. New research suggests that as more ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

Astronomers have found a black hole in the Cygnus constellation formed without a supernova. This unique system includes a black hole and two stars. The black hole, feeding off a nearby red giant ...

WASHINGTON: The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent ...

Each galaxy seen in this image is therefore producing many black holes, which are converting matter into dark energy according to the cosmologically coupled black hole hypothesis. This image shows ...

This diagram shows how a shifting feature, called a corona, can create a flare of X-rays around a black hole. The corona (feature represented in purplish colors) gathers inward (left), becoming ...