Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than ...

One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...

Together with European astronomers, they found that the supermassive black hole in the galaxy was 10 times smaller than ...

Newly released images of the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy M87 show that the plasma that swirls around ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

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On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...

Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences. Our knowledge of black holes is incomplete. We know there are stellar mass black holes that are created when massive stars collapse on themselves at the end of ...

Astronomers have discovered "dust-shrouded supermassive black holes" in the early universe, less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang—a type of object that had previously escaped detection. An ...

Astronomy has just revealed a cosmic monster of unprecedented scale, a black hole so colossal that it pushes the boundaries of our understanding of the Universe. This major discovery, located at ...