NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Supermassive black hole reactivates, emitting plasma jets New data sheds light on black hole’s unusual behavior since 2018 Potential white dwarf companion may explain black hole's activity ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

MIT astronomers have been captivated by the strange behaviors of a supermassive black located 270 million light-years away, ...