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 ...

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

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

"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.

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

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

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