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

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

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

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

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 ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.