Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

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

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

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

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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

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

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

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 ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...