Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

The quest to understand black holes has intrigued scientists and captivated the public imagination for decades. These enigmatic cosmic entities, with their mysterious centers, have long been shrouded ...

Many, if not most, galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their core, including the Milky Way. Our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, has about 4.3 million times the mass of our ...

Astronomers have discovered extraordinarily powerful X-ray jets blasting from two supermassive black holes that are so ...

Astronomers found the most distant black hole ever detected in X-rays using the Chandra and Webb space telescopes. The Abell 2744 galaxy cluster dominates this image, while the closeups from each ...

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) is revealed ...

A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While famous for devouring anything and everything in its gravitational ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has detected the oldest black hole ever seen, feeding voraciously about 400 million years after the Big Bang. Skip to content Introducing the all-new Astronomy.com ...

Just 1,600 light-years away, the black hole is the closest known to Earth. The good news: It’s dormant, at least for now.

The flares are common in supermassive black holes and have been seen before, says Farhad Yusef-Zadeh, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University who led the study.

A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravity is so intense that nothing, no matter how much energy it has, can escape.Inside the event horizon, gravity supersedes all other forces of nature.