Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

In the case of those first detections, the signal was produced by pairs of black holes within our galaxy that had been orbiting one another and eventually merged. Although gravity holds us down on ...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a new study. It suggests many such cosmic beasts effectively "cook" their own ...