Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.

A visiting astrophysicist on Monday brought the science of space to Manhattan. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Scientists are using pulsars to detect the gravitational wave 'hum' created from supermassive black hole mergers. Credit: National Science Foundation (NSF) ...

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Astronomers made a remarkable discovery—one of the biggest pair of jets that appear to shoot from behind a supermassive black ...

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 ...

A new paper explores the idea of asteroid-sized objects that may be causing gravitational ripples in our cosmic neighborhood.

The universe’s hidden mass may be made of black holes, which could wobble the planets of the solar system when they pass by ...

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

Black holes often appear in science fiction movies, largely because elements of their existence are still a mystery. They ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...