“Further data from ground-based telescopes confirmed that it is many times more massive than any black hole previously found ...

Astronomers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic behavior of black holes and their role in the cosmos. These colossal ...

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

Gravitational waves are unlocking the origins of black holes, linking spin shifts to sequential mergers in star clusters.

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

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

Scientists have found that supermassive black holes self-grow by regulating the cooling of surrounding hot gas, forming warm ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

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

However, black holes have few defining characteristics — as theoretical physicist John Wheeler put it, "black holes have no hair" (much like your humble author). Of course, though, testing a ...