But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Black holes have long captivated the imagination of scientists and the public alike, with their immense gravity and enigmatic nature. For years, the mysteries surrounding these cosmic giants have ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge computing. Scientists have used a powerful neural network trained with ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...