Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

Researchers have spotted a promising but puzzling candidate for one of the lightest black holes ever detected.

The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

While peering into the galaxy using JWST's infrared vision, researchers discovered outflows of gas surrounding the hungry ...

Another star has now been discovered in a system of star and black hole that has been known for years. It is a novelty that raises another question. Almost by chance, a research team from the ...

Rory Bricca ’26 presented his piece on Active Galactic Nuclei during the Annual Astronomy Department Jamboree, sourcing ...

Astronomers have discovered that shifts in the corona around black holes lead to dramatic flares of X-rays, observable through advanced telescopes. This phenomenon involves a process where the corona ...