not unlike how the moon blocks the Sun's glare during a total solar eclipse - and has allowed astronomers to look to a black hole eight times more closely than ever before. NASA's Orion crew ...

And now a study suggests that black holes might be even stranger than we thought. NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory ... When a star more than 20 times the size of our sun dies and explodes in ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

Observations of VFTS 243 provide evidence that black holes can form directly from the collapse of massive stars, without a ...

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope have witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown ... 175 times the distance between the sun and the closest star to the solar ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

In addition to being billions of times more massive than the Sun, they sometimes spew jets of particles at nearly the speed of light. According to research by NASA, a black hole in the distant ...

and that's not even the strangest part. Buried in archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, researchers discovered something else very unusual about NGC 5084 ...

In 2022, NASA released the first-ever image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It is about 4 million times the mass of the Sun.

Image: X-ray (Chandra): NASA/CXC/SAO/D ... to many billions of times the Sun’s mass. But black holes have other extreme physics at work; the objects sometimes emit jets of particles moving ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray observatory has captured ... a large cloud of gas up to 100,000 times bigger than the sun, collapses into a black hole. Many of these black hole seeds then merge to form ...