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

Giant black holes in the centres of galaxies like our own Milky Way are known to occasionally munch on nearby stars. This ...

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

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen Hawking in 1976—which posits that black holes destroy information. That ...

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 ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...