To measure the masses and spins of black holes, scientists want to follow clues left behind by light that takes a ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Astronomers trained the instrument on a number of galaxies in deep space, and at the center of one galaxy spotted a young, ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

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

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

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

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...