The moment one galaxy spears another with a powerful beam of radiation shooting from its central black hole has been spotted in a distant galactic collision.

As telescopes gaze into space, they also peer back in time. Starlight takes years—sometimes billions—to reach Earth, letting ...

The ultimate end of the universe comes much sooner than expected, but fortunately it still takes a very long time,” explained ...

Let’s reimagine the walk of all walks. Not just a neighborhood stroll or a long-distance trek, but a bold journey to the ...

Unlike supernovae, which are also very bright, the flare from this event showed distinct signs of a black hole’s feeding frenzy—broad emission lines of elements like hydrogen, helium ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

U.S. scientists have created their own "black hole" using the world's most powerful X-ray laser. Researchers in the past had used a lower-intensity beam on small molecules, which in turn stripped ...

This supermassive black hole was discovered thanks to the newly-identified tidal disruption event AT2024tvd, an astronomical phenomenon in which a star passes too close to a black hole and the extreme ...

Watching the black smoke rise above the Vatican, I certainly felt part of world history. For centuries smoke has been used as a signal to notify whether a Pope had been elected or not. To actually ...

It describes two alternative models, proposes observational tests, and explores how this line of ... of two black holes—and the extraordinary images captured by the Event Horizon Telescope ...

“Regular black holes, and especially mimickers, are never exactly identical to standard black holes — not even outside the horizon ... certain hypotheses. This line of research holds enormous ...