Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

It is called a black hole, because it acts like an ideal black body, as it reflects no light. According to the theory of ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

A new paper proposed by the researchers has said that dark matter may have contributed to the formation of giant black holes ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...