An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

Plenty of groups have been theorizing about primordial black holes (PBHs) recently. That is in part because of their ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, have found evidence of a fast-growing black hole in an unexpected place and ...

The location of the possible newborn black hole is shown in the center, along with the two other black holes that were ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

At the core of the galaxy, about 26,000 light-years away in space, is Sagittarius A*, a supermassive black hole about 4 ...

“A human can do this only if the respective black hole is supermassive and isolated, and if the person entering the black ...

Black holes played a critical role in the formation of the early universe. However, astronomers have been debating for a long ...

Two black holes merged into one massive one, scientists from an international collaborative group said.

How was the collision of two black holes detected? The two black holes were spinning at about 400,000 times faster than the Earth’s rotation when they collided, billions of years ago.

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO ...