Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the ...

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 ...

The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be ...

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

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

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

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

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Almost any event in space-time generates gravitational waves. However, only big events such as black hole mergers produce ...