Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

Black hole quantum effects are usually thought to be too small to have any observable signatures. This is indeed the case for ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research.

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

We do know some things about these space enigmas, and many weird facts about black holes. Keep reading to learn more about these objects, and see if you already know some of these six weird facts ...

The information they gathered was too much to ... and innovative algorithms all came together to open an entirely new window on black holes." The team is also imaging the supermassive black ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

Two Indian physicists have theoretically proposed a path-breaking idea which could fundamentally change the current view ...

Taking the temperature of black holes Hawking: Black holes store information Dozen black holes at galactic centre The effort to capture the image, using telescopes in locations ranging from ...

Scientists have published a spectacular new polarised light image of the strong magnetic fields spiraling from the edge of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Seen in polarised light for ...