Black holes are the most extreme objects in the universe. These hyper-dense celestial phenomena exert gravitational forces so powerful that not even light can escape their pull, and time itself is ...

How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn't that hard to explain: That's where the highest concentration of matter is, and the black holes had ...

Perhaps it will also bring us closer to an understanding of the true nature of black holes" Scientists have strengthened the potential connection between dark energy and black holes. New research ...

Despite their destructive forces, black holes are often seen in with a companion, such as a star, neutron star, white dwarf, or even another black hole. However, a study published Oct. 23 in ...

The hungriest known black hole in the early universe has been found, thanks to teamwork between NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory. The black hole's voracious ...

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".

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies, and modern telescopes continue to observe them at surprisingly early times in the universe's evolution. It's difficult to understand ...

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape - form in the violent explosion ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe is the most voracious of its kind we've ever seen. It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big ...

AI-generated representation of an accreting supermassive black hole, surrounded by gas spiraling toward it along the equatorial plane (the accretion disk) and emitting powerful winds of matter as it ...

Black holes continue to captivate scientists: they are purely gravitational objects, remarkably simple, yet capable of hiding mysteries that challenge our understanding of natural laws.

The ghosts of stars are up to their usual mischief. By Dennis Overbye Just in time for Halloween, two black holes are in the news. One is a serial killer, on the verge of devouring its second star ...