An exotic type of dark matter could explain some of the characteristics of our galaxy’s central supermassive black hole, but ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could ...

The KM3NeT collaboration is a large research group involved in the operation of a neutrino telescope network in the deep ...

A ‘runaway’ black hole ejected from its host galaxy is barrelling across space — and leaving behind a wake of newborn stars.

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around ...

If a pair of black holes coalesce into one, much of that vast energy can be released in a few seconds.

Since it turned on, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of mysterious red blobs in space. The so-called Little ...

If confirmed, this disappearing act might provide the closest and best observational evidence for the birth of a black hole ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

A restarted black hole in J1007+3540 reveals how episodic jet activity and cluster pressure sculpt giant radio galaxies. Astronomers have captured one of the clearest views yet of a black hole ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar 5. It's a stellar ...