Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...

Scientists have observed the moment a newly-formed Black hole was kicked through space in a world-first recording of “natal ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black ...

Ten years after the first detection of gravitational waves, scientists have captured the clearest signal yet — and it confirms one of Stephen Hawking’s most famous predictions. Using the upgraded LIGO ...

In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Indian astronomers have discovered how supermassive black holes and their powerful jets regulate galaxy growth by halting ...

An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio ...