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 ...

More information: L. Hernández-García et al, AT 2021hdr: A candidate tidal disruption of a gas cloud by a binary super ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

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

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

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

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass ...

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

astronomers have never seen a triple system with a black hole—until now. Scientists from MIT and Caltech have spotted what is believed to be the first system with a black hole and two stable ...

In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after ...