Infrared observations help astronomers uncover hundreds of obscured supermassive black holes, reshaping cosmic understanding.

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

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

In Westminster Hall on Monday, Labour’s Yasmin Qureshi said: “We found that when Labour got elected, they found the first thing was a £20 billion of deficit – a big black hole which no one ...

The best large format printers allow us to take advantage of the resolution of today's best professional digital cameras to print images up to billboard size, something that was once only possible for ...

Some claim large seeds from pristine gas clouds might explain the mass, while others favor small seeds that went through spurts of very fast growth. Every approach tries to reconcile a huge black hole ...

The detection of this second pattern also helped us figure out that the masses of the two supermassive black holes are in a 2.5:1 ratio – with one 2½ times as large as the other – and that ...

TikToker Maggie Berry shared a video of a deer with a hole in its cheek, asking users what she could do to help it Sara Belcher is a digital news writer/editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...