Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

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

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

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

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

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

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

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

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

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would ...

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 ...