At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

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

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

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

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

That means nothing can sit still around a rotating black hole, including the "plates" that these cosmic titans feed from.

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...