When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

Astronomers have recently made a breakthrough studying the supermassive black hole M87*, a behemoth six and a half billion ...

New AI-enhanced images of Sgr A*, showing that our galaxy's black hole spins rapidly and tilts slightly toward Earth.

Deep in the core of most galaxies, hidden by spinning clouds of gas and dust, black holes spin like cosmic engines. These ...

It might sound like the culmination of a Bond villain's latest evil scheme. But the world's first 'black hole bomb' has officially become a reality. This theoretical doomsday device uses a series of ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

According to the equations that govern black holes, the larger one of these cosmic behemoths is the lower its average density ...

Talk about epic. A collision of two black holes is so extreme that it’s challenging physics theories of how large black holes form and merge. The two black holes had masses bigger than any before ...