“This is the first time we have a highly refined census of black holes growing by consuming interstellar material surrounding them.” He added: “If we didn’t have a supermassive black hole ...

Some of the most enigmatic objects in the Universe are giant supermassive black holes (SMBH). Yet after 30 years of study ... but this is insufficient to image regions near SMBH where the most ...

Now, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has examined one ongoing source of carbon-rich ... Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures.

Simulation of two colliding supermassive black holes emitting gravitational waves that could be detected with this novel method. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Scott Noble; simulation data ...

Researchers in South Korea are developing a constellation of satellites that could reveal what goes on in the vicinity of supermassive black holes like never before. The constellation, dubbed ...

On York Boulevard in Los Angeles, a blurred black hole hangs on a dark wall, joined only by a pair of headphones playing looping echoes of its siblings colliding. It's a familiar scene of our ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes. New research may have delivered bad ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information.

The water supply in this distant place is huge, containing the equivalent of about 140 trillion times all the water in Earth’s oceans combined. This supply is sitting near a supermassive black hole ...

An illustration of two black holes about to merge into one. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) The finding about LID-568's feeding frenzy was far from the last word on early supermassive black hole ...

This image indicates the location of the newly discovered binary star D9, which is orbiting Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It is the first star pair ever ...