Black holes that turn matter into energy could explain dark energy and answer two other cosmic questions. Now, the challenge ...

University of Oregon astronomer Yvette Cendes made a surprising discovery years after a black hole shredded a star. What is ...

Gravitational lenses could allow us to find black hole binaries long before we're able to measure their gravitational waves.

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

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

Astronomers have used the LOFAR telescope array to create the largest radio survey of the cosmos, revealing 13.7 million ...

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 ...

In my January 23, 2026, “The Universe” column, I wrote about some of the biggest bangs the universe has to offer: exploding stars, hiccupping magnetars, stellar disruptions and colliding black holes.

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

During the survey, researchers identified a promising 8.19-millisecond pulsar (MSP) candidate located close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

Supermassive black hole binaries form naturally when galaxies merge, but scientists have only confidently observed a very few of these systems that are widely separated. Black hole binaries that ...

Using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, an international collaboration of astronomers led by scientists at Waseda University and Tohoku University of Japan have discovered an extraordinary quasar in ...