The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

As civilizations grow and mature, if humanity so far is anything to go by, they require a lot more energy to sustain ...

Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

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

Discover the power of black holes and their jets, and how they impact the formation of stars and potentially habitable worlds ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in that galaxy is rotating.

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Black holes power some of the most energetic phenomena in the known universe, but could they ever power an advanced human ...

"This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole's behavior in real time," said astronomer ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our sun) lurk at the center of most galaxies, ...

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

This week, researchers reported a brain circuit linked to the intensity of political behavior. Microbiologists found that the ...