A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

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

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

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

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

Researchers propose a new physics model suggesting dark matter played a crucial role in the rapid formation of supermassive ...

Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

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

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 ...

By unleashing powerful jets, or outbursts, the black holes kickstart a process to cool hot gas and form warm filaments that allow for the – let's say – now-edible gas to flow back into the ...