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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

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

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 ...