Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Kemi Badenoch has suggested council tax rises could be needed after claiming local authorities face a £2.4 billion “black ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Council tax bills in England are expected to increase by up to 5% next April, amid Tory warnings that local authorities face ...

To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ orbiting Sagittarius A*," according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO) ...

A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...