"This work is a step toward understanding how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, a major unsolved problem in ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has detected powerful black hole jets emanating from a galaxy 11.6 billion light-years away. These jets, formed during the universe's "cosmic noon," are ...

Scientists may have found a new way to detect some of the universe's most mysterious objects, primordial black holes (PBHs), ...

These dramatic events happened when giant black holes tore apart massive stars. The explosions were so intense that they released more energy than 100 supernovae, which are already among the brightest ...

NASA Spots Black Holes Eating Stars To Create Biggest Boom Since Big Bang. by Aaron Leong — Thursday, June 05, 2025, 12:20 PM EDT. Comments. Scientists have ...

That supermassive black hole was so menacing that NASA even dubbed it in a blog post as "space jaws" – a reference to Steven Spielberg's famous 1975 shark film.

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

It’s the largest black hole jet we’ve discovered to date. What makes this particular jet so exciting for astronomers is not only its size. It’s also estimated to be 1.2 billion years old.

A neutron star's final moments may spark violent starquakes, monster shock waves, and even a fleeting, never-before-seen object called a black hole pulsar.