When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

In the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, astronomers spotted the largest explosion in the universe consisting of energy equal to a ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi The energetic streams are together 23 million light ...

Supermassive black holes are theorized to get so big through a chain of mergers involving smaller black holes and by feasting on copious amounts of gas and dust. The problem is that this process is ...

The universe could be packed with many more monstrous black holes ravenously feeding on their surrounding material than previously suspected. That's the conclusion of a team of scientists ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ... The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research.

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes.

Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe than previously thought, according to a new study. Astronomers from the University of Southampton say that 35% of these galactic ...