A groundbreaking survey has revealed thousands of active black holes in dwarf galaxies, transforming cosmic black hole ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

In March 2021, astronomers observed a high-energy burst of light from a distant galaxy. Assigned the name AT 2021hdr, it was thought to be a supernova. However, there were enough interesting features ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

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

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings ... To determine this, the researchers conducted a large-scale ...

As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...

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

Scientists are now claiming that primordial black holes may be heating up and exploding throughout the universe. Detection of ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...