New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

The findings provide new perspectives on the origins of supermassive black holes from smaller "seeds." According to current ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

The massive galaxies have been compared to 100kg toddlers because they existed when the universe was still young. Find out ...

For months, organizations including the Open Space Institute, state Department of Natural Resources and the South Carolina ...

The theory goes that black holes accrete material, often from nearby stars. However the theory also suggests there is a limit to how big a black hole can grow due to accretion and certainly shouldn’t ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

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