Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...