The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

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

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

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

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

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

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