Researchers using the Event Horizon Telescope have significantly advanced our understanding of the supermassive black hole at ...

Surprisingly, the black hole driving this colossal jet is modest by quasar standards, weighing 450 million times the mass of ...

Located approximately 27,000 light-years (one light year equals approximately nine trillion kilometres) from Earth — relatively close when it comes to galactic black holes — Sag A* has an estimated ...

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...

Neutrinos are very mysterious particles,” says Damien Dornic, one of the co-authors of a new paper published February 12 in ...

If you're looking to impress your friends with some rare space facts, these gems will serve you well. The Largest Known Star ...

Ancient quasars seen by the James Webb Space Telescope technically shouldn’t exist, but one rare type of dark matter could ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

In the case of those first detections, the signal was produced by pairs of black holes within our galaxy ... “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so ...

ALMA observations of the protoplanetary disk around HD 142527. The white bars show the directions of the magnetic field revealed by the orientation of the dust grains. . | Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ ...