Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

Webb witnessed a highly ionised gas whose level of energy was too high to come from something like supernovae, making ...

It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...

The black hole at the heart of galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located 300 million light-years away, was quiet for decades as it ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...