Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other telescopes, astronomers have found that a black hole that shredded a star has moved onto a another star or stellar black hole. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hoba ...

Astronomers detect an ultramassive black hole weighing 36 billion suns in the galaxy LRG 3-757, a record thanks to ...

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) is revealed ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space ...

"So I simulated two different scenarios, one where a camera — a stand-in for a daring ... away from our target as we race into the supermassive black hole at speeds approaching those of light.

Researchers have found that the supermassive black hole in the center of our Milky ... But what makes Sagittarius A* stand out is its rotational speed, which the researchers calculated using ...

This allowed astronomers to obtain spectral data not only of the very faint target, but also the even fainter surrounding area. The observations revealed the black hole’s intense outflows of gas ...

Picture a black hole so powerful that it swallows the equivalent of one sun every day. Now imagine that black hole also has a mass that's 17 billion times larger than our sun. Scientists in ...

The world watched in delight when scientists revealed the first-ever image of a black hole in 2019, showing the huge black hole at the center of galaxy Messier 87. Now, that image has been refined ...