"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, with a substantial contribution from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR), has unveiled new, detailed images of the supermassive black ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged together.

We’re not claiming that it’s absolutely going to happen this decade. But there could be a 90% chance that it does." ...

Astronomers say they've found evidence of an ancient and never directly observed class of object known as a primordial black hole.

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

A groundbreaking study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics has revealed that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A*, is spinning at nearly maximum speed and ...

Artistic depiction of the explosive interaction between the black hole and the massive nearby star (blue). As the separation between the star and the black hole decreased, the black hole's intense ...

The incredible new find was only possible thanks to the gravitational lensing of the Cosmic Horseshoe. Credit: ESA/Hubble Last week, astronomers announced the discovery of an unimaginably large black ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 ...