For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

Black holes have captivated scientists for more than a century. How well do you know these supermassive wonders of the ...

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Scientists may have uncovered how supermassive black holes, forming mere hundreds of millions of years after the Big Bang, ...

Thousands of these stellar-mass black holes may lurk within our own Milky Way galaxy. Supermassive black holes, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity, can have masses equal to ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe. New research may explain how they formed, thanks to primordial "seeds".

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. These hyper-dense celestial phenomena ...

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The most gigantic ones, known as “supermassive” black holes, can weigh millions to ...

Black hole coronae are billions of degrees hot, which makes them a lot more difficult to study in detail. Using NASA’s IXPE ( ...

Hubble probes Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies: This is an artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at ...