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." ...

Researchers have spotted a promising but puzzling candidate for one of the lightest black holes ever detected.

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

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 ...

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

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

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.

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly ...