Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

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

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

Figuring out whether a galaxy has one or two black holes in its center isn’t as easy as cracking an egg and examining the yolk. But measuring how often these binary supermassive black holes form ...

Though supermassive black holes grow faster in early galaxies, star formation catches up, leading to the 1:100 mass ratio seen today. This doesn't yet confirm rapid growth theories over other ...