Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

ESA's Gaia mission has discovered the closest and 2nd closest black holes to Earth found yet. In this animation, travel to ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

Scientists may have found the first hints of primordial black holes, born in the very first seconds of the Big Bang.

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...