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

Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of supermassive black holes reveals that their spin rates reveal something ...

These observations help reveal how space-time warps at short distances from the black hole. Astronomers suspect that this turbulent swirl might be a common feature around many supermassive black holes ...

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than ...

Even more surprisingly, the black hole that powers the quasar from which this jet erupts, designated J1601+3102, is relatively small. (For a quasar-powering supermassive black hole, that is.

Expect the unexpected In this artist’s rendering, a stream of matter trails a white dwarf orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. (Courtesy: ...

Recently, astronomers focused on a galaxy 270 million light years away, which hosts a supermassive black hole known as 1ES 1927+654. The black hole, researchers have now observed, has been ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. Researchers studied data from the ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. New observations of several distant ...

Astronomers have discovered a radio jet twice the width of the entire Milky Way.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox ...