Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black hole that is growing far faster than theory allows. Using the James Webb ...

A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

This infrared view offers the clearest look yet at how dwarf galaxies merge, evolve, trade gas and ignite waves of new stars.