"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) is revealed ...

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

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

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

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