Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

They're called primordial black holes (PBHs.) Conditions in the very early universe were much different than they are now, ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

New research suggests black holes are unstable, challenging Einstein's theory of general relativity and the Kerr solution.

An ancient black hole near the galactic center is consuming matter at over 40 times the theoretical limit, raising questions ...