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

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

A distant supermassive black hole, PG1211+143, is consuming surrounding matter so rapidly it's expelling excess mass at ...

We know black hole mergers occur because we can detect the resulting gravitational waves. But when trying to piece together ...

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

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.

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