While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

A team of astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute, working with one colleague from the University of St Andrews' ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

A newly published study in The Astrophysical Journal has revealed the presence of a previously undetected supermassive black ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

A distant galaxy that lay quiet for decades has suddenly stirred, lighting up in dramatic bursts that have caught astronomers ...

In each case, the visible star races around an invisible object with more than three times the sun’s mass, indicating a black hole rather than a neutron star. While solitary black holes should ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

Labor has accused the Coalition of releasing “dodgy figures” on three of its major policies, warning the budget could be ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...