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

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

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

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

This stunning Hubble view of spiral galaxy UGC 11397 captures more than graceful arms and glowing stars—it hides a ravenous ...