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

In NASA's latest survey, experts detected black holes hidden behind thick clouds of gas and dust and others that are not.

Researchers have demonstrated a new, unsupervised machine learning approach to find new patterns in the auxiliary channel data of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.

Scientists discover low-mass microquasars can accelerate cosmic rays, reshaping theories on high-energy particle origins.

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

Supermassive black holes, 1,000 times larger than previously thought, have been discovered in LRD-type galaxies. This ...

Space-time may hide a bizarre new kind of black hole that causes Einstein’s theory of gravity to fail – and could solve the ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.