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

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

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

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) is revealed ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

A supermassive black hole located 1.2 billion light-years away shows signs of intense activity. Observations reveal matter ...

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

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

“ENTs are different beasts,” study lead author and astronomer Jason Hinkle explained in an accompanying statement. “Not only are ENTs far brighter than normal tidal disruption events, but they remain ...

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, ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...