Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...

A record-breaking gravitational wave signal let scientists "listen" to a distant black hole merger and put Einstein's gravity to its toughest test yet.

A pair of distant cosmic black hole mergers, measured just one month apart in late 2024, is improving how scientists understand the nature and evolution of the most violent deep-space collisions in ...

The Hubble and Chandra space telescopes are hunting for rogue black holes wandering through dwarf galaxies, which could provide a fossil record of how supermassive black hole growth in the early ...

A new simulation could help solve one of astronomy’s longstanding mysteries—how supermassive black holes formed so rapidly—along with a new one: What are the James Webb Space Telescope’s (JWST) ...

The NASA/JAXA X-ray spacecraft has allowed astronomers to dive into the metaphorical "eye of the storm" swirling around supermassive black holes.

In the fall of 2024, two separate pairs of stellar mass black holes, hundreds of millions of light-years away, spiraled into each other and merged in collisions of unimaginable violence. But these ...

LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detects two black hole mergers with rare spin patterns, offering evidence for hierarchical formation and testing Einstein's theory. Gravitational waves are “ripples” in space-time ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

A comprehensive set of simulations by Flatiron Institute astrophysicists and their colleagues revealed that magnetic fields are responsible for creating black holes with masses in a range previously ...