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

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

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

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

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational ...

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar origins.

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

The black hole in question lies in the distant Seyfert galaxy PG1211+143, about 1.2 billion light years from Earth. Using the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory, the University of ...

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

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

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?