To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

Astronomers trained the instrument on a number of galaxies in deep space, and at the center of one galaxy spotted a young, ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

A recently published study describes an ancient black hole that eats matter far faster than previously thought possible. The ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

The black hole’s mass is over half that of all the stars in the surrounding galaxy, a record for any galaxy hosting a quasar.

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

"The next question is where these black holes are, and how they have been moving around for the past 8 billion years. Scientists are working to constrain this right now," Croker said. Science ...