Science Supermassive black holes intrigue astronomers with their ability to grow rapidly. A recent discovery reveals an ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

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

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

Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black ...

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

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

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

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

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.