Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

astronomers have never seen a triple system with a black hole—until now. Scientists from MIT and Caltech have spotted what is believed to be the first system with a black hole and two stable ...

In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after ...