The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy that is defying conventional understanding. Growing ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

Black holes are among the oddest objects believed to populate the universe. Long sought, they have recently been "found" lurking in the centers of galaxies, tipping the scales at a million to a ...

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.

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory. A fresh analysis of decades-old X ...

Black holes are regions in space where an enormous amount of mass is packed into a tiny volume. This creates a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape. They are created when giant ...

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.