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

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...

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

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Due to gravitational lensing, the photons from a single flash of light near a black hole follow winding paths. Some follow the trajectory of the blue line, where they take a direct path to the ...

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

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...