Eventually, every stellar civilization will have to migrate to a different star. The habitable zone around all stars changes ...

At NASA, high-end computing is essential for many agency missions. This technology helps us advance our understanding of the ...

Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a gravity pit from which nothing can escape, they can also shoot off powerful jets ...

If you’ve ever witnessed a solar eclipse, you might recall the Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — a halo of glowing ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

Astronomers, using data from NASA’s Swift Observatory, have identified an extraordinary recurring signal from two massive black holes in a galaxy a billion light-years away. Known as AT 2021hdr, this ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event a billion light-years away: two supermassive black holes orbiting each other ...