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

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

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

An artist’s rendition of a supermassive black hole surrounded by a swirling accretion disk. One of the most notable aspects about our planet—if observed from the outside—is that it spins. Earth’s spin ...

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

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...