The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...

The jets of a supermassive black hole are one of the cosmos' greatest spectacles - and also one of its greatest mysteries. These beams of ionized matter burst forth from the cores of galaxies at ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

This marks the first-ever detection of X-ray spectral lines in a binary black hole system, offering a novel window into the ...

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...