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 ...

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

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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 ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

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

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 ...