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

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

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 ...

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

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

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

Black holes are invisible, ... was detected in 2011 when NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory spotted a strange burst of radiation from the center of a galaxy 3.8 billion light-years away.

An artist’s illustration (below) helps visualize what’s happening: matter spirals into a supermassive black hole while a high-speed jet blasts outward. The black hole is located 11.6 billion ...

What if the Big Bang didn’t actually happen, and we’re actually sitting inside a black hole? This could be true, according to scientists at the University of Portsmouth’s Institute of Cosmology and ...

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.

Three supermassive black holes are gobbling up stars 10 times the size of the sun. ... NASA says black holes actually brighten during these cosmic events and that brightness lasts for several months.

In 2022, they presented the image of the black hole at the center of our Milky Way, Sagittarius A*. However, the data behind the images still contained a wealth of hard-to-crack information.