"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

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

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...

The Centaurus galaxy cluster, with hot gas represented in blue and cooler gas filaments represented in red. Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/Olivaresi et al Black holes aren't just gorging themselves on whatever ...

An international team found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies 13 billion light ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and ...

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton ... surrounded by flecks of light. Dark purple or blue areas represent filaments of hot gas observed by Chandra, launched in ...