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

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical).Authors David Parkinson Research ...

These findings are detailed in a paper titled “A super-Eddington-accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

X-ray binaries (XRBs) are composed of a normal star or a white dwarf transferring mass onto a compact neutron star or a black ...

Scientists have detected the signal from two giant black holes interacting with a cloud of gas in the center of a galaxy for ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

The same can't be said of "space weather" from solar events, which can seriously affect satellites and even passenger planes.