Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

Illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

An artist's concept of Sagittarius A*, surrounded by a flaring disk of hot gas. Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI) The black hole at the center of our galaxy is experiencing a ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

An artist’s illustration depicts a primordial black hole flying past, and briefly “wobbling” the orbit of Mars, with the sun in the background.

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...