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

A decade ago, physicists using twin detectors in Washington State and Louisiana detected gravitational waves—subtle ripples ...

"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into ...

Enabled by supercomputing, University of Pretoria (UP) researchers have led an international team of astronomers that has ...

The centers of galaxy clusters contain the universe ... astronomers say. Supermassive black holes, regions of space where the pull of gravity is so intense that even light doesn't have enough ...