Black holes are dark, matter-devouring balls of gravity. Most of them are so far away that we don't need to worry about them. But not this one. Meet Gaia BH1. This enormous black hole sits right ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

The killer black hole was first noticed five years ago, when astronomers spotted a flare from the center of a distant galaxy ...

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

SEE ALSO: Scientists found a colossal black hole near the dawn of time In a composite ... about 12 million light-years from Earth, in X-rays. For reference, one light-year is nearly 6 trillion ...

This black hole is orbited by a very close star (which orbits every 6.5 ... V404 Cygni (located some 8,000 light years from Earth) still has more than a few surprises up its proverbial sleeve.

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