Astronomers have witnessed a dramatic and never-before-seen event near a supermassive black hole: an intense X-ray flare that ...

What happens when millions disappear into a black hole—not in space, but in Hollywood accounting? Netflix's latest legal ...

Three galaxies are colliding, and all of them are hiding something powerful at their core. This isn’t just rare. It’s unheard ...

Black holes are among the most fascinating and enigmatic objects in the universe. Born from collapsed stars and governed by ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

This suggests that black hole growth during mergers is inefficient and uneven. Rather than steadily consuming gas, black ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...