The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

Particles blasting from a supermassive black hole jet appear to be traveling at nearly the speed of light — much faster than ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

For this study the research team used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory ... light-years away and a key site for observing ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

The first image of a black hole was captured in 2019 by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), showcasing a dreading structure.

Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Sceye partners with NASA and USGS for climate management tools to monitor wildfires and storms from space. Black holes may form gently without supernova. China prepares Shenzhou-19 mission to conduct ...

While most observations of black holes in space are with radio telescopes, a research team used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to study their jets in a new light — literally. What they found ...