Gigantic black holes lurk at the center of virtually every galaxy, including ours, but we've lacked a precise picture of what ...

Inside an incredibly bright cluster of galaxies, a long-dormant supermassive black hole has come back to life. Radio images ...

Astronomers have traced the origin point of a jet of material that is thousands of light-years long emanating from the supermassive black hole M87* ...

A new study has connected the famous m87 black hole, the first ever imaged, to its powerful cosmic jet, revealing how it ...

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a galaxy, but far from it. More amazingly, the event’s radio waves pulsed and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Astronomers have detected what may be the most massive black ...

Researchers believe the 'ultramassive' black hole is big enough to be the largest of its kind ever detected. Black holes are regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light ...

When scientists discovered an enormous black hole thousands of light-years from where it ought to be in space, they knew they had a cosmic oddity on their hands. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showed a ...

New models explain how small black holes in the early universe beat the clock and grew into massive objects within millions ...

The study of black holes and the dynamics at the centres of galaxies has reached new heights with the advent of high-resolution imaging and advanced simulation techniques. Black holes, the enigmatic ...