The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

A scheme to encourage nature conservation closes unexpectedly, leaving many farmers short of money ...

NASA discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, 52 million light years from Earth. It's 2.6 billion ...

Magnetic fields twist around the black hole as it rotates to store energy – kind of like when you pull and twist a rubber band. When you release the rubber band, it snaps forward. Similarly, the ...

The black hole examined by the team is no small cosmic object. It is more than a billion times the mass of our Sun. Despite ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 ...