What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

Omega Centauri is a globular cluster – a large, dense, spherical glob of stars bound tightly together by gravity. It's around ...

Quickly moving primordial black holes might leave tiny holes in regular matter as they tunnel through, leaving traces we ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

The black hole information paradox has puzzled physicists for decades. New research shows how quantum connections in ...

Dec. 18, 2024 — Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is 'napping' after stuffing itself with too much food. Like a bear gorging itself on salmon before ...

Galactic Burp In 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an ...

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy revolves has been discovered tipped over on its side, with its rotational axis ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...