DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

"Dramatic activity serves as a beacon, allowing us to identify hidden black holes in these small galaxies." ...

If a star orbits a black hole, it will appear from a distance to be orbiting empty space. Gaia projects the star’s orbit on a ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

As you look up towards the light-polluted sky tonight, just know that a big ... But in reality, this blob was an ‘extremely red’ supermassive black hole gobbling all sorts of space junk ...

even though we’ve stared at this spot in the sky for decades now.” When the authors of the latest study observed the two different wavelengths of light from the black hole simultaneously ...

Because black holes swallow all light, astronomers can't spot them directly like they do the many glittery cosmic objects in the sky. But there are a few keys that reveal a black hole's presence.

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." "Roses are red. Violets are blue. Your event horizon means I can't ...

Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to see directly ...

"Black holes are poor eaters ... So, the Dark Energy Survey, for example, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and its various incarnations." ...