Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

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

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

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

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 ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

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

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

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Observations with JWST show unexpectedly large black holes in early galaxies, reshaping ideas about cosmic evolution.

New quantum computing research reveals that black holes may not have chaotic singularities but structured quantum states, ...