Clemson University astrophysicists believe they have discovered a rare black hole system, containing two black holes, in ...

This week, science reporter Isaac Schultz described a groundbreaking effort to measure the spin of a supermassive black hole, ...

This artist's concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive ...

Scientists have calculated the speed of a spinning supermassive black hole by studying the 'spaghettified' remains of a star ...

Einstein used this theory more than a century ago to predict what happens in what would later become known as black holes.

A recent study leverages data from the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the evolution of galaxies in the early ...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope images show streams of dust feeding the supermassive black hole in Andromeda, revealing how ...

Black holes seem to provide endless fascination to astronomers. This is at least partly due to the extreme physics that takes ...

Astronomers have caught supermassive black holes in the act of changing the direction of their jets – a confounding cosmic ...

A feast devoured by a supermassive black hole a billion light-years from Earth has revealed how fast that black hole spins on ...

Black holes gobble the stellar material like a messy toddler, scattering the debris in all directions. Half of the material ...

Astronomers have a new way to measure how fast a black hole spins, by using the wobbly aftermath from its stellar feasting. The results offer a new way to probe supermassive black holes and their ...