"Black holes are the ultimate cosmic fossils," Jani said. "The masses of black holes reported in this new analysis have remained highly speculative in astronomy. This new population of black holes ...

Every 44 minutes, a mysterious space object nearly 15,000 light-years away sends out a blast of radio waves and high-energy X ...

In the world of black holes, there are generally three size categories: stellar-mass black holes (about five to 50 times the ...

For decades, scientists have known black holes often come in pairs. These binary systems feature a black hole locked in a ...

Astronomers have spotted a supermassive black hole ripping apart and devouring a star in colliding galaxies. It is only the ...

Located in the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ), these filaments could be a part of a cyclical process in one of the galaxy’s ...

Astronomers discover more than 100 hidden black holes in a star cluster, revealing surprising movements in ancient galactic ...

This galaxy existed when the cosmos was just 2 percent of its current age. That means its light had to travel for 13.53 ...

A team of international scientists has uncovered a surprising cosmic mystery, thanks to a galaxy nicknamed the Squid Galaxy ...

Black holes are infamous for being invisible. But thanks to a new technique from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team, ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discusses the hypothetical use of highly energetic events as a way to produce "gravitational-wave ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...