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

What exists at the core of a black hole? A research team led by Enrico Rinaldi, a physicist at the University of Michigan, ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

putting it right at the end of that challenging period. "In this work, we have discovered that this quasar is very likely to be a supermassive black hole with a jet pointed towards Earth — and ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

the astronomer turned author Marcus Chown goes straight to the deep end. His book, “A Crack in Everything,” tells the stories of scientists on the quest to demystify black holes, and it starts ...

Stellar-mass black holes, with mass of order 10 to 100 solar masses, could have been formed due to the collapse of massive stars at the end of their lifetime. Supermassive black holes have mass ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence than first meets the eye. New observations of several distant ...