Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

Scientists have been left stunned after stumbling across a lone black hole drifting through space. It's not every day ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

But not all of these monsters are the same: some are sedate and quiet, while others are active and are rapidly gobbling up material around ... like a star or a smaller black hole is being yanked ...

Unravelling puzzling behaviour The gravity of a black hole captures matter that gets too close and can rip it apart. The matter from a captured star, for example, would be spread into a hot ...

PARIS, France — A massive black hole at the heart of a galaxy in the Virgo constellation is waking up, shooting out intense X-ray flares at regular intervals that have puzzled scientists, a study said ...

If an unlucky star swings too close, it gets torn apart. The star's shattered material becomes a stream that spins rapidly around the black hole, forming what is called an accretion disc that is ...