Two giant black holes causing strange flashes of light about one billion light years away from Earth have been detected by ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

A radical hypothesis suggesting black holes could be behind the accelerating expansion of our universe has been stirring up controversy among astronomers. A new study may contain the first tantalizing ...

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 down material at a jaw-dropping rate of over 40 times a theoretical ...

A team of astronomers discovered an old black hole that eats up matter at a rate 40 times faster than the Eddington limit.

"This is very likely to bring us closer to discovering the true nature of dark energy. Perhaps it will also bring us closer to an understanding of the true nature of black holes" ...

This unprecedented observation of dual black hole pairs in merging dwarf galaxies opens up new avenues for research into ...

Supermassive black holes exist at the center of most galaxies ... spectrograph was innovative and necessary for getting our observation," says Emanuele Farina, International Gemini Observatory ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

Scientists at NASA have found two ‘monster' black holes ‘weirdly' interacting with gas in the centre of a galaxy.