In the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, something strange happened: many massive black holes already ...

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more ...

But scientists have observed something weird at the edge of black holes' accretion disks, the ring of rapidly spinning ...

A pair of monster black holes swirl in a cloud of gas in this artist’s concept of AT 2021hdr, a recurring outburst studied by NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory and the Zwicky Transient ...

Any dust and gas that gets pulled in starts to swirl super-fast in that maelstrom, forming accretion disks that heat up as they "feed" the black hole. While the mechanism that fuels black holes is ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the history of the universe it appeared. An enormous black hole in the ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.