There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...