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

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

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

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

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

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

The historic first image of the Messier 87 (M87) supermassive black hole, captured using the Event Horizon Telescope, 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 ...

For the first time, researchers have found evidence that even microquasars with low-mass stars can efficiently accelerate ...

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

From unifying quantum physics and gravity to working out what is dark matter, the universe has some deep questions that ...

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