MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding ...

MIT astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive black hole at a steadily increasing clip. The source could be the core of a dead star that’s teetering at the black hole’s edge.

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

International astronomers have discovered new features in a supermassive black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654, located 270 ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

Using IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists identify hundreds of obscured black holes hidden behind gas and dust.

“We’ve found that many more are lurking in plain sight - hiding behind dust and gas rendering ... census of black holes ...