A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

A new analysis of M87*, the first black hole imaged by humanity, has revealed turbulence in the matter around it, which this ...

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

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.