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

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 ...

A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

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

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

WASHINGTON - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the Sun, called Sagittarius A*. In fact, these objects, which increase in ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center. Astronomers have even found these enormous celestial monsters in the early ...