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

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

Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

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

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

New research suggests black holes are unstable, challenging Einstein's theory of general relativity and the Kerr solution.

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

WASHINGTON - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the Sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end Shi En Kim The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster ...