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

The James Webb Space Telescope found "tiny red dots" in the early universe representing overgrown supermassive black holes and stars that are impossibly old for the infant cosmos. Using the James Webb ...

Supermassive black holes lurk all throughout the known universe, but catching one in the act of devouring its cosmic dinner doesn't happen all that often. In fact, unless a black hole is actively in ...

Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These measurements reveal details about the chaotic, superheated material swirling ...

The team used two of the most powerful supercomputers, capable of performing a quintillion operations per second.

"The jet from J1610+1811 is remarkably powerful, carrying roughly half as much energy as the intense light from hot gas orbiting the black hole," which is among the fastest and hottest matter in the ...

You live in a galaxy packed with black holes that never announce themselves. They do not blaze in X-rays or glow with stolen ...

A black hole’s bizarre "heartbeat" is forcing astronomers to reconsider how these cosmic heavyweights behave. Observations of IGR J17091-3624 — a black hole in a binary system roughly 28,000 ...

The tidal forces produced by a tiny black hole would have an interesting effect on human bodies.