For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...
NASA selects two proposals for missions to observe X-ray and far-infrared wavelengths of light from space for additional ...
Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...
President-elect Trump announced Wednesday that Tulsi Gabbard would serve as his director of national intelligence, a ...
Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...
As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can have billions of solar masses, and observational evidence suggests that all large ...
Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...
A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.
How did supermassive black holes get big so fast? Astrophysicist Souphie Koudmani tells us how she and her colleagues are finding out.
As you can probably imagine by this point, falling into a black hole would be terrifying. "If you fell into a black hole, the gravitational pull would stretch you out in a process called ...
There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...