Until his dying days, the giant of 20th-century physics obsessed over the underpinnings of space and time, and how we can all ...

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 ...

M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the team tracked jets back to a distant galaxy ten times the Milky Way's mass. The team did ...

Looking deep into the early universe with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have found something unprecedented: ...

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

The Milky Way is home to gas, dust, billions of stars, and a supermassive black hole at its center. Living in this galactic ...

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

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

Astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole in the early universe that is starving its galaxy to death. The ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

We now know that black holes occur frequently throughout the universe. One Sagittarius A* sits at the center of our galaxy, ...

Black holes are one of the most mysterious cosmic phenomena, despite how much we continue to learn about them. While considered a mathematical possibility for many years, the first black hole wasn’t ...