The closest black hole to Earth was thought to be 1,560 light-years away - but a new study suggests there could be one around 150 light-years away.
According to a new analysis of a type of galaxy known as a blazar, the best explanation for unusual changes in their glow is a pair of supermassive black holes locked in a decaying orbit.
U.S. astrophysicists has found via simulations that some black holes might be traveling through space at nearly one-tenth the speed of light.
Scientists have detected an active supermassive black estimated to have been created 570 million years after the Big Bang.
From the far reaches of the observable Universe, astronomers have just seen a supermassive black hole suddenly flare to life.
An accretion disk is a colossal whirlpool of gas and dust that gathers around a black hole or a neutron star as it pulls in material from a nearby star. As the disk spins, it whips up powerful winds that can affect the surroundings of black holes.
A UK team of astronomers found an ultramassive black hole, an object over 30 billion times the mass of our Sun, in the foreground galaxy – a scale rarely seen by astronomers.
A comma-shaped molecular cloud near the center of the Milky Way seems to be orbiting one of the most sought-after objects in astronomy - an intermediate black hole.
Observations of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy - the "missing" 70% of the Universe.
A team of scientists from the University in Bulgaria say they have developed a novel new method that could help scientists differentiate between black holes and hypothetical wormholes.
Astronomers around the world are captivated by an unusually bright and long-lasting pulse of high-energy radiation that swept over Earth Sunday, Oct. 9. The emission came from a gamma-ray burst (GRB). Its cause is unknown.
This discovery implies that there ought to be many dormant black holes spread across the Milky Way galaxy, the home of Earth.
Australian astronomers have discovered one of the biggest black hole jets in the sky. Spanning more than a million light years from end to end, the jet shoots away from a black hole with enormous energy, and at almost the speed of light.
Scientists have proved that the source of high-energy neutrinos is a special kind of supermassive black holes called blazars.
Located in the bright constellation of Centaurus, this luminous cosmic beast is more than 500 times larger than the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own galaxy.
