Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

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

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

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 by the ejection of excess matter as a high velocity wind.

How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

Very massive stars, over 100 times the mass of the sun, eject significant amounts of matter through powerful stellar winds before collapsing into black holes.

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

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

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.

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