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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.

While peering into the galaxy using JWST's infrared vision, researchers discovered outflows of gas surrounding the hungry ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical).Authors David Parkinson Research ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

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

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...