By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.

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

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

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

New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Using the Gemini North telescope, astronomers have detected the largest black hole jet ever seen in the early universe. It's ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

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

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...