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

"Finding more supermassive black holes that are potentially hosting jets raises the question as to how these black holes grew ...

Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking put forward an intriguing idea: Using the principles of quantum physics, he predicted that even though nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event horizon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.

A flat public servant wages forecast may have made sense under a stingy Coalition, but it makes no sense under a Labor ...

We do not know what dark energy is but its existence allows astronomers to explain so many features of the universe. A new hypothesis suggests quite a peculiar source of this energy: black holes.

In this case, the sheer size of the dormant black hole suggests that our standard models may not fully explain how holes of this magnitude form and grow. “It’s possible that black holes are ...

Lead author Dr Peter Boorman, formerly of the University of Southampton and now at Caltech, in Pasadena, California, explained: “Black holes also influence the galaxies they live in – this ...