The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

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

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...