Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

Like the lingering chime of a struck bell, tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime are created when massive objects like ...

Black holes are known for their voracious appetites, consuming everything — even light — that falls inside them with no hope ...

There’s a new class of cosmic object in town. And it might just overturn our understanding of black holes and galaxy ...

Typically, black holes are only about 0.1% of their galaxy’s mass. Here, the black hole accounts for around 40% of the galaxy's mass—a staggering difference. Related Stories ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Stellar black holes, these cosmic monsters born from the collapse of massive stars, play a key role in galaxy dynamics. A ...

Primordial black holes could inhabit the modern-day cosmos, making them responsible for the phenomenon of dark matter, according to new research.

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

The scientists studied a black hole system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a sun-like star orbiting each other. In this system, 5 or 6 jets occur over a period of about 20 days, making ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...