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

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

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

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

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

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

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...