"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer Takafumi Tsukui.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...

A group of astronomers first noticed light bending around this ultramassive black hole at the center of Abell 1201 in 2003. However, it wasn’t until 2017, when astronomers discovered a second ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

Astronomers are investigating the longest and most energetic bursts of X-rays seen from a newly awakened black hole. Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to ...

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries ... around 0.000001—but the cost of searching for such signs is minimal compared ...