One of the most powerful black holes in the universe is belching out gas at speeds of up to 10,000 kilometers per second, ...
NASA has partnered with Katalyst to prevent a $500 million observatory from re-entering Earth's atmosphere by deploying a ...
Since the 1970s, astronomers have predicted that Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way, ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers discovered an extreme version of "little red dots" dubbed "The Cliff." Its ...
Most cosmologists believe that these stars were the first large, free-floating structures to illuminate our universe, and ...
Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.
The polarity of a supermassive black hole lurking at the center of M87, a galaxy 55 million light-years from Earth, ...
The GW190412 merger revealed a black-hole recoil moving faster than 50 km/s. Gravitational waves allowed its 3D motion to be reconstructed. A research group led by the Instituto Galego de Física de ...
Scientists spotted an enormous black hole in the early universe that's growing at 2.4 times the theoretical Eddington limit. Studying it further could help answer one of the biggest questions in ...
U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...
Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects in the universe. For decades, physicists believed their explosive deaths ...
On Sept. 14, 2015, physicists attained the long-sought goal of detecting gravitational waves, the shockwaves spewed out by such cataclysmic events as the violent merger of two black holes. Now, in the ...