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.

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

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

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

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.