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

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide open. A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

contains gigantic black holes ranging in mass from millions to tens of billions of times that of the sun, NASA said. These massive black holes were found to be exerting influence over their ...