Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...

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Using cutting-edge algorithms and exascale supercomputers, researchers have created the most realistic simulations yet of matter flowing into black holes. Building on decades of research, a group of c ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Scientists may have found the first hints of primordial black holes, born in the very first seconds of the Big Bang.

Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole. Nicknamed “Superman,” the flare originated 10 billion light-years from Earth, and at its peak, ...

Finnish scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic voids come in pairs, per a study published October 9 in the ...

After decades of searching, astronomers have imaged two supermassive black holes in orbit around each other at the heart of quasar OJ287. Astronomers have captured a radio image showing two black ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...