"For years, astronomers have searched for a black hole in M83 without success." Scientists have long believed that monster-sized supermassive black holes lurk at the heart of all large galaxies. That ...

WR 124, a rare type of Wolf-Rayet star. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Infrared: (Herschel) ESA/NASA/Caltech, (Spitzer) NASA/JPL/Caltech, (WISE) NASA/JPL/Caltech; Infrared ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, pushing our theoretical models to the limit." The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers have detected the “sound” of a black hole being kicked through space, captured through the analysis of gravitational waves from the 2019 event GW190412. This ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The most distant black hole ever confirmed has now been discovered. A team led by astronomers from the University of Texas at Austin announced the discovery of the black hole in the ...

Black holes get a bad rap. They’ve been cast as the monsters of the cosmos — gobbling up stars and stretching anything that gets too close into cosmic spaghetti. But Black Hole expert Janna Levin has ...