Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

"If our standard assumptions about the universe and gravity hold, this should not happen to the waves emitted by black-hole mergers in the universe." Breaking space news, the latest updates on ...

each with a central black hole appearing as a bright white dot surrounded by patches and filaments of gas. In each image, a patch of purple with neon pink veins floats in the blackness of space ...

Scientists have proposed a new type of dark matter called ultra self-interacting dark matter to explain how supermassive black holes grew quickly. Unlike regular dark matter, this type interacts ...

Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind. All three were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope ...

New observations of several distant giant black holes suggest the mysterious entities play a strong role in shaping their environment – even going as far as to "cook" their own cosmic meals, according ...

"Black holes really do sit at the frontier of human understanding." Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too big, too fast. New research points to a strange form of dark matter as ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as the result of a new form of "black hole archeology" that links black ...