Black holes and soccer balls don't have much in common, but if black holes are curved when kicked, it might say something ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Astronomers have found a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud. This black hole is 600,000 times the mass of ...

When NASA detects two black holes colliding, the cosmos is in a state of chaos. Black holes lie at the centre of most ...

In other words, when galaxies merged, so did their central black holes. Each galaxy brings a rotation rate and orientation to the merger. The rotations could just as easily cancel each other out ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

The dominant theory — that black holes start feeding and their jets turn on when galaxies merge — is called the major merger model. “To have such a clear, unambiguous result that seems to ...

Additionally, the daughter black hole created in the merger also has spin, and just as with a kicked soccer ball, this can be either right-handed or left-handed with respect to its direction of ...