Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This ...

A new cosmic crime scene reconstruction tells the full story of a star ripped apart by a ravenous black hole, revealing a ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

Astronomers have watched as a supermassive black hole enjoying a stellar meal flashed twice in a rare and powerful event. This double-flash Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) could result from the black ...

Here's just how big black holes can really get. There are three common types of black holes. The smallest are stellar black holes, which form after a giant star explodes and collapses in on itself ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found evidence that supermassive black holes suppress star formation in maturing ... a mechanism that emits a specific type of radiation visible in the light ...

A flash of light called the Platypus has hallmarks of a mid-sized black hole shredding a star and a type of burst thought to be a stellar explosion.

Regular pulses of X-ray radiation emanating from a supermassive black hole could be explained by a white dwarf star on the ...

What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a cluster of stellar-mass black holes ... in lockstep — and they could point to a type of planet never seen before Last year, a team ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?