X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like Hubble and James Webb, don't even touch that bandwidth. And Chandra, the ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

A new study of super-fast-moving stars suggests that they were accelerated by a monster black hole that's been lurking unseen ...

Astronomers analyzing M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, have discovered that its shadow changes from year to year. The ...

Pip Watch — short for pipping, which is the first hole ... in on Shadow when he stops by with a new stick, or the eggs as they prepare to pip. When Jackie showed up with a black speck on her ...

The findings, from the same Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) that produced the iconic first image of a black hole’s shadow, confirm that M87*’s rotational axis points away from Earth. The analyses also ...