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

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

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

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

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to find that a black hole was consuming matter 40 times faster than thought possible.

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.

Using data from NASA's JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

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

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

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

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

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...