But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...