In a new study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, astronomers have made an extraordinary breakthrough by observing the ...

This understanding changed when Dikerby and his team pointed XRISM toward a large gas cloud near the galactic center.

A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly ...

In observations conducted between April 5 and April 10, 2017, the team looked at the relativistic jet produced by OJ 287, a ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...

For the first time, a shockwave propagating inside the jet of a celestial object presumed to be a pair of orbiting ...

Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...

Black holes are not cosmic vacuum cleaners. They are among the universe’s most extreme objects - and come in different sizes.

Black holes may appear to be shaped like a doughnut, but the truth is more complicated than that, explain our readers ...

It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...

A spinning black hole just revealed its inner chaos, XRISM’s image goes deeper than any X-ray telescope before it.