Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

While it's much smaller than the largest supermassive black holes detected, it's still a whopper considering how early in the ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A new discovery has surfaced, wherein the first-ever solitary black hole has been revealed in the Sagittarius constellation.

Webb has two decades ahead of it, but it's already captured some stunning images. Here are 35 of our favorites.

Why it matters: University of Utah astronomers have used Hubble's images to find new (ish) black holes. How it works: When it ...

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

NASA’s JWST data raises the possibility that our universe lies inside a black hole—shaking the foundation of modern cosmology ...