Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

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

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

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

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

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 ...

Space is already filled with plenty of mysteries, and black holes may be among the strangest. Here are some of the questions ...

It could just be the divers getting the heebie-jeebies, but it looks like Arrowhead could be teasing the squids doing a thing ...

Any object that falls past a black hole's point-of-no-return, called the event horizon, isn't coming back. That includes light. "This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole." ...

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