The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Astronomers studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion times the mass of the Sun, have uncovered a new way these cosmic monsters unleash their power.

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

Primordial black holes, formed in the earliest moments after the Big Bang, may have had the potential to grow at a rapid pace into supermassive black holes, according to new findings from cosmological ...

Illustration of wave-wave coupling near a black hole and the generation of secondary waves. Credit: Huan Yang In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the “Infinity” galaxy — two recently-collided galaxies that, together, look like the symbol for ...

Supermassive black holes may not be as massive as previously thought, according to a new discovery by scientists. Astronomers from the University of Southampton, working with colleagues from France, ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Astronomers spotted the ultramassive black hole inside the Cosmic Horseshoe, an equally gargantuan galaxy so powerful that it bends light from distant galaxies. reading time 3 minutes The largest ...

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.