A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Scientists are now claiming that primordial black holes may be heating up and exploding throughout the universe. Detection of ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...