Black Hole

Scientists find the fastest-growing black hole in the past nine billion years

The fastest-growing black hole of the last nine billion years has been discovered by an international team led by astronomers at The Australian National...

Scientists find a way to “see” invisible black holes

Astronomers may have discovered the first free-floating black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a technique called gravitational microlensing. With new observations,...

Astronomers find hidden trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies

Scientists have found a previously overlooked treasure trove of massive black holes in dwarf galaxies. The newly discovered black holes offer a glimpse into the...

Black hole winds are no longer as they used to be, shows study

During the first billion years of the universe, winds blown by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies were much more frequent and...

What the quest to image black holes could tell us about our universe

Not long ago, the idea of photographing a black hole was as quixotic as photographing a unicorn. Now, scientists have not one but two images...

Astronomers capture first image of the black hole at the heart of our Milky...

Black holes are invisible by nature. Their pull is inescapable, forever trapping any light that falls into their gravitational abyss. But just beyond a black hole’s...

A surging glow in a distant galaxy could change the way we look at...

Something strange is afoot in the galaxy known as 1ES 1927+654: In late 2017, and for reasons that scientists couldn't explain, the supermassive black hole...

Scientists find eight new sources of black hole echoes

Scattered across our Milky Way galaxy are tens of millions of black holes — immensely strong gravitational wells of spacetime, from which infalling matter,...

In some places, black holes are tearing apart thousands of stars at a time

At the heart of the more massive galaxies in the Universe, there are supermassive black holes (SMBHs) so powerful that they outshine all of...

Scientists find possible location of medium-sized black holes

Intermediate-mass black holes are notoriously hard to find but a new study indicates there may be some at the center of dense star clusters...