Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

Astronomers are unraveling the mystery behind Ansky, a black hole system emitting powerful, repeating X-ray bursts called ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly, although you'd never notice. An astrophysicist is trying a new search for these gravitational waves.

Physicists say they've built the first-ever "black hole bomb," a concept that dates back to the late 1960s. As New Scientist ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as ...

Scientists have been left baffled after spotting a lone black ... space probe. This time, the researchers have even stronger evidence that this gravitational 'lens' could only be a black hole ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared.

For the first time, astronomers have probed the physical environment of repeating X-ray outbursts near monster black holes ...

Massive ripples in the very fabric of space and time wash over Earth constantly ... countless supermassive black holes have engaged in a volatile dance: These behemoths spiral around each other ...

What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, but instead exists inside a black hole? It may sound like a work of ...

The experiment may reveal how black holes energize nearby particles and help test theories about exotic fields, including ...