"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...

Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the ...

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

Black holes, often depicted as cosmic predators, have another fascinating role: they can launch some of the universe's most ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

Black holes expel powerful jets of charged particles that lead to luminous bursts of gamma rays, all made possible by each ...

NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

And it's a dilly of a huge pickle. But there's something in the Universe that might explain it, some scientists argue: the massive, dense, growing concentrations of matter we call black holes. "If ...

New research uncovers how black holes inherit magnetic fields from collapsing neutron stars, explaining their powerful jets.

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...