There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

Using observations from 2017 and 2018, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration has advanced our understanding of the ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

This rare quasar with spiral arms could help astronomers understand how supermassive black holes feed and grow.

Recent discoveries by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes were present much earlier than ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...

University of Connecticut Physics Ph.D. student Logan Fries detailed exciting findings about nearby black holes at a press ...