Scientists have spotted a massive black hole in the early universe that is "napping" after stuffing itself with too much food ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...

An ancient black hole had to take it easy after gorging itself on its local galaxy, offering hints at the exotic objects' ...

A research team has proposed a new method to reconstruct the "family tree" of black holes. Published in The Astrophysical ...

Scientists have uncovered the existence of a binary star system close to the black hole near the center of the Milky Way ...

Astronomers have observed a binary star system orbiting near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way ...

At about 2.7 million years old, the twin stars seem to be fairly young. Scientists said they appear to orbit each other at ...

Learn how a black hole from the early universe has fallen asleep after eating too much matter, changing the way researchers ...

as is the case for a newly detected massive black hole that lies mostly dormant in its host galaxy. A team of astronomers ...

At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from ...

Brian Cox has revealed exactly what would happen to a human if they fell into a black hole and the answer is terrifying.