Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

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 ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

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

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...