There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

"This is how you solve the universe-breaking problem." ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Researchers have found there are many more black holes in the universe than once thought. (Credit: WikiMedia Commons) Most ...