Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

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

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

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

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...