In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

A new paper from Harvard's sometimes controversial physicist Avi Loeb has suggested that if we want to find advanced alien ...

"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Researchers used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, with some concern from ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...