Explore 5 real images captured by NASA, revealing the mysterious and captivating appearance of black holes, offering a ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission and the ...

Astronomers have witnessed a monster supermassive black hole erupting with a light-year-long jet traveling at one-third the ...

which caused the black hole to tip over. Pamela Marcum, an astrophysicist at the NASA’s Ames Research Center and study co-author, admits that this galactic arrangement is both a real head ...

Galactic nuclei images reveal how supermassive black holes interact with their surroundings using infrared telescopes.

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other ... buried in the archival data by applying cutting-edge image processing, which revealed diffuse features that had previously ...

NuSTAR's observations were then matched up with data about the same feeding supermassive black hole from NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope. The new findings could help explain how the early ...

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...