The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

In a new book release, two scientists combine forces to explain the discoveries, developments and theories made in the realm ...

The Milky Way may have had a second black hole at its heart between 10 billion and 10 million years ago—one that acted a bit ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show.

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space. "We think most black holes form from violent explosions of ...

An international team of researchers used multi-wavelength observations of active galactic nuclei to study how black holes ...