At the heart of that galaxy was a black hole spewing energy equivalent to the output of more than a trillion stars. “The Milky Way would be a little dot in these two giant eruptions,” said Martijn Oei ...

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Hunting for black holes sounds like the premise of a new Hollywood blockbuster, but at Vanderbilt University, Assistant Professor of Physics and ...

A new study reveals that one such pair of jets, belonging to a black hole some 7.5 billion light-years away, stretches some 23 million light-years—the equivalent of placing 140 Milky Ways in a ...

Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span ...

The citizen science app, available in eight languages, uses public input to identify kilonovae, neutron star mergers that ...

Astronomers from the National Central University in Taiwan have investigated an unusual superorbital period variation of an X ...

Astronomers have discovered a "missing link:" a tiny black hole lurking with a red giant star in a strange and ...

Research suggests black holes may not exist as traditionally thought, with frozen stars potentially solving key paradoxes.

Hubble reveals a surprising number of early black holes, offering new insights into their formation. Led by Stockholm ...

Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, ...

Black holes are on a continuum of ultradense objects that form from the remnant cores of dead stars after they run out of ...