Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, has ...

Astronomers have found a black hole in the Cygnus constellation formed without a supernova. This unique system includes a black hole and two stars. The black hole, feeding off a nearby red giant ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered a lightweight black hole that’s a bit of a cosmic conundrum. Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from far less than a paperclip to at least tens ...

WASHINGTON: The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent ...