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

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

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

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Scientists are now claiming that primordial black holes may be heating up and exploding throughout the universe. Detection of ...

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

A new study reveals that ultraluminous accretion disks could also oscillate like a spinning top when the black hole rotates. This discovery raises questions about the origin of some observed cosmic ...

The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back ...