The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

A strange black hole is making scientists scratch their heads.

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

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