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

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

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

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

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

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

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

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

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

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

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