"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 ...

A newly analyzed radio image reveals twin lobes stretching roughly 66,000 light-years on each side of a quasar called ...

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

By combining data from the Subaru Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have discovered distant quasars that ...

Black holes, cosmic entities with immense gravity, trap everything, even light. These form from collapsed massive stars, ...

With the upcoming LIGO India facility and India’s proposed Daksha mission, designed to scan the whole sky for such flashes, ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive black holes discovered yet. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada ; N. Risinger (skysurvey ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

A new publication introduces the rapidly growing field of multi-messenger gravitational lensing, which combines ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.