Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Astronomers have warned that billions of black holes are consuming "hidden" matter in the universe. Experts identified these ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

A mysterious black hole has started behaving even more strangely, scientists have said. The supermassive black hole has been ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...