A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...

Dusty stars close to the Milky Way’s black hole stay stable for years. New infrared data shows they survive gravity and ...

An object inside our galaxy is moving so fast that it is on track to break free of the Milky Way altogether, racing through ...

When the young writer began analysis with Wilfred R. Bion, both men were at the beginning of their careers. Their work ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

The Full moon, the Yule Moon, is on December 4. This is a supermoon, the second largest of 2025. The next evening, the moon ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

Astronomers have long believed that the region around the Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is one of the most ...

James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...