Astronomers stared deep into the heart of a hungry black hole, only to discover a jet of X-rays beaming out of it that is ...

These black holes are nicknamed 'blazars' because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth.

The flash of light from the black hole's dinner finally reached Earth in 2014 — and astronomers just discovered it in their data. This newly detected outburst from the center of NGC 7392 is the ...

That would more than double the detections made to date, helping to further unlock the mysteries of the universe. The ...

Discovery of GS-9209, one of the furthest from the Milky Way, adds to evidence that large black holes prevent star formation, astronomers say ...

OK, that was a little click-baity, but then again, so was the announcement this week that a scientist had confirmed Hawking radiation with a lab-grown black hole. It sure got our attention ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of intermediate-sized black holes ...

Just as planets can orbit stars, and stars can move around other stars, so black holes can circle one another. "A black hole warps space ... billion light-years from Earth. LIGO detects the ...

Astronomers are using 100 newly found supermassive black holes as a laboratory for extreme physics experiments. These black holes are nicknamed 'blazars' because they are shooting explosive jets of ...

These black holes are nicknamed 'blazars' because they are shooting explosive jets of matter and radiation directly at Earth ... Related: What is a black hole event horizon (and what happens ...