Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

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

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany ...

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 ...

2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be ...

At the center of a black hole lies the singularity—a point where ... Do you have a question about astronomy? Let us know via [email protected]. Miyoshi, M., Kato, Y., & Makino, J.

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 ...

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 ...