First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...

Lenticular galaxy NGC 3489 glows at its heart thanks to a feeding supermassive black hole (Image credit: NASA, ESA, P. Erwin (Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik), L. Ho (Peking ...

First images of Milky Way’s black hole released 02:13. The iconic 2019 image of a supermassive black hole that has since been dubbed the "orange donut" has gotten a makeover.

Falling into a black hole. The black hole that we, as the viewer of the NASA simulation, are falling into has a mass of around 4.3 million times that of the sun.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has captured a striking image of a distant quasar from the "cosmic noon," including a giant energy jet "being illuminated by the leftover glow from the Big Bang itself ...

“The black hole is streaking too fast to take time for a snack,” NASA quipped. It’s assumed that the trail created a lot of new stars since it’s almost half as bright as its host galaxy.

NASA Black Hole Experts Chime in for Star Wars Day As luck would have it, in 2023, Star Wars Day (May the Fourth—not to be confused with Star Wars Day II, Revenge of the 5th) falls in the middle ...

The light that the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope collected to create this image reached the telescope after a journey of ...

Data from Chandra X-ray telescope and James Webb Space Telescopes have revealed a black hole from 470 million years after the Big Bang. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a glimpse into these cosmic giants’ fascinating nature.

The giant black hole TON 619 dominates this graphic. On right: Also in orange, the supermassive black hole in the galaxy M87. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab The ...

Since 2003, the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has been associated with sound. Now you can listen to it. NASA/CXC/Univ. of Cambridge/C. Reynolds et al.