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 ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

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 ...

Black holes are famous for being insatiable concentrations of gravity from which not even light can escape. And if they floated through space all on their lonesome, it might be the end of the story.

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth ...

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 ...