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

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 ...

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

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

Each year, teams are challenged to climb a totem, slick with thick brown grease. The prize? A juicy ham donated by a local ...

Scientists have recently found a black hole with a mass 33 times that of our Sun, and it's surprisingly close to Earth—relatively speaking, of course! This massive black hole, located in a nearby ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Every morning, I crossed a stretch of railway tracks on the way to my school. The tracks lay less than a hundred meters from ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

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

"That light circles around black holes, causing echoes, has been theorized for years, but such echoes have not yet been ...