Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

This suggests that O-type stars experience black hole grinding. There are plenty of the smaller B-type stars in the region, ...

The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

"A particle in the vicinity of a rotating black hole will orbit it at a speed close to the maximum allowed by the laws of physics, the speed of light in a vacuum, which has a value of 300,000 km/s ...

Billions of years ago, two black holes merged in a violent explosion that rippled the fabric of our universe. Those cosmic ripples -- known as gravitational waves -- produced by this collision ...