A monstrous black hole in a distant galaxy has earned itself a nickname worthy of a science-fiction horror movie for its gluttonous feasting on any stars that dare get near. Meet "Space Jaws." NASA ...
Astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have uncovered the turbulent past of a distant red ...
Astronomers watched how the light brightened and dimmed near the event horizon of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A comparison between the galaxy clusters Perseus and Centauru. The glowing white dots are black ...
Somewhere out in the cosmic deep—about 600 million light-years away—a wayward monster has been caught in the act. Using a combo of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Hubble, and the NRAO Very Large Array, ...
The noise coming from a black hole sounds like a track played at a Halloween party. The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for ...
SAN FRANCISCO -- NASA just released eerie audio from a black hole this week and now Twitter is in a tizzy. The black hole is about 240 million light years away from Earth. NASA says that in reality, ...
We're on a black hole coverage roll this month, so here's another one: a supermassive black hole 12.8 billion lights years from us has been discovered feasting at a rate that scientists describe as "a ...