It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the supermassive ... light-years from Earth at the heart of the galaxy Messier 87 (M87). The team was also ...

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

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

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Supermassive black holes are spinning faster than previously thought, challenging the notion that they primarily form through galaxy mergers. Instead, their ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has just spotted what might be some of the oldest galaxies ever to exist—basically, ...

"This seems to indicate that you don't necessarily need an exceptionally massive black hole or accretion rate to generate such powerful jets in the early universe." Though all large galaxies are ...