A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

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

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...