Our galaxy's supermassive black hole is famous for being one of the dimmest in the universe. Evidence from a new space ...

This artist’s concept depicts a smaller white dwarf star pulling material from a larger star, right, into an accretion disk.

A groundbreaking study recently published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society has revealed an ...

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

Astronomers have finally watched a black hole do something Albert Einstein only described on paper: twist the very fabric of ...

NASA’s IXPE captures the first X-ray polarization data from a white dwarf system, detailing observations of EX Hydrae and ...

Using the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT), an international team of astronomers have performed long-term photometric ...

Netflix has given a straight-to-series order for an adaptation of what many consider to be one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, Charles Burns’ Black Hole. The project is also being ...

Astronomers have, for the first time, observed two large spiral arms of gas actively funneling material into a supermassive black hole (SMBH), providing a detailed look at its feeding mechanism. Using ...

For decades, scientists have suspected that some quasars, which are regarded as some of the brightest objects in the universe, might actually conceal not one but two black holes locked in a ...