Earlier this year, researchers reported the most massive black hole merger ever detected. But the event was so unusual that ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to find evidence of an elusive kind of black hole, one that's about 8,000 times more massive than our sun. What makes this black hole special is its ...

The trip took place in July 2024 and took 6 days. Over that time, the flying observatory looked at two main sources: the Crab ...

A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...