Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

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Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

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A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...