Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

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

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