"Interestingly, the quasar powering this massive radio jet does not have an extreme black hole mass compared to other quasars ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

Scientists have discovered that some supermassive black holes rotate much more rapidly than expected. The discovery came as ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe, but what if we could recreate their physics in a lab?

New research shows black holes can trigger gas cooling, creating fuel for their own feeding. This process keeps them growing ...

Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that black holes can cool gas to the proper temperature for a cosmic feast ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

Supermassive black holes can fuel their own growth by cooling and recycling gas, creating a continuous cycle of feeding and outbursts. The central regions of galaxy clusters host the universe’s ...

Scientists used changes in the supermassive black hole M87*'s accretion disk to infer its orientation, size and turbulence ...