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

Supermassive black holes are often regarded as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful ...

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

A new form of black hole archeology, linking spin to gas and dust, has revealed that these cosmic titans spin faster than ...

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...