Black holes are the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

A newly discovered black hole has been dubbed the 'hungriest' black hole ever detected. Scientists from the International Gemini Observatory and NSF NOIRLab say the void, called LID-568 ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that's gobbling up matter at a seemingly impossible rate, surpassing previous limits.

Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray ...

The energetic streams are together 23 million light-years in length—roughly as long as 140 Milky Way galaxies lined end to end Shi En Kim The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster ...

Black holes are about as mysterious as deep space gets, with plenty of puzzles that scientists have yet to solve. One conundrum is how some supermassive black holes became so big early in the ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE are ravenous black holes that pull gas, dust, light and even other black holes into their maw, never to be seen again. Like a riptide pulling swimmers out to sea ...

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture.