By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

An international research team has made a groundbreaking discovery about dark matter and its role in shaping galaxies and ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole that's shooting a giant energy ... Radio waves from this blazar traveled more than 12.9 billion light-years to reach us, which is a new ...

Researchers have discovered the largest black hole plasma jets ever in a galaxy almost 7 billion light years away from Earth.

The black hole is known as 1ES 1927+654, has the mass of a million of suns and is in a galaxy roughly 270 million light years away. It was already fascinating to scientists. In 2018, they watched ...

More information: George N. Wong et al, Measuring Black Hole Light Echoes with Very Long Baseline Interferometry, The ...

The jets extending from these blazars can extend millions of light-years in length. Black holes are among the most mysterious cosmic objects, much studied but not fully understood. In pursuit of ...

Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape. While their immense gravitational strength tends to pull in any objects - such as stars ...