Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe.
Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...
Astronomers have made the incredible and unexpected discovery of a massive black hole located in our very own galaxy. Named ...
"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.
Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...
Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the ...
Movies make it seem easy to fall into a black hole, but the reality is far more complex. This video breaks down the ...
Black holes expel powerful jets of charged particles that lead to luminous bursts of gamma rays, all made possible by each ...
A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...
Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...
If you’ve ever witnessed a solar eclipse, you might recall the Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — a halo of glowing ...