Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

Science An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Astronomers have discovered a truly ancient monster: a radio jet 200,000 light-years wide, originating from when the universe ...

The team announced the discovery, called Gaia BH2, in early 2023. BH1 and BH2 are quite similar but Gaia BH3 — the newest — is completely different. It’s the first black hole astronomers ...

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

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the very first time Astronomers have discovered hundreds of hidden ...

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