Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...
Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...
Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...
New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.
As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.
A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...
Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...
Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...
Japanese scientists argue that the Milky Way's black hole is shaped like an elongated oval rather than like a "doughnut." ...