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.

An astronomer and ‘black hole historian’ explains how the parts of the universe black holes grow in might influence how quickly they become bright, supermassive objects.

Astronomers have made a record-breaking measurement of a black hole’s spin, one of two fundamental properties of black holes. NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory

New data may settle dispute about the universe’s true expansion rate.

A newly discovered celestial object can be viewed as an ancestor of supermassive black holes. It was born relatively soon after the Big Bang.

The newly found quasar, the most distant ever discovered, hosts a supermassive black hole equivalent to the combined mass of 1.6 billion suns.

New research may provide clues to the mystery of why some supermassive black holes launch jets of material out into space while others don't.

A new discovery "presents the biggest challenge yet for the theory of black hole formation and growth in the early universe."

Researchers have discovered the first evidence of a cloaked black hole in the early universe, existing just 850 million years after the Big Bang.