A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

In an article published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday, scientists carried out an innovative study testing the ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Early data of “little red dots,” or LRDs, from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) appeared to suggest the presence of ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...