New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Astronomers at the University of Hawaii uncovered black hole events so packed with energy, they were the biggest explosions ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

A team of scientists has developed a new model for ‘very massive stars’ and their impact on the formation of black holes.

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

A new census reveals that 35% of supermassive black holes are hidden behind dust, disrupting major galactic models.

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

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