Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

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 ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

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

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

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...