Phoenix A*, a supermassive black hole with a mass of 100 billion Suns. Located 8.6 billion light-years away at the heart of ...

Just 570 million years after the Big Bang, a young, compact galaxy named CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 appears to host a supermassive black ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...