JWST peered at the glowing trail of stars left behind by a candidate runaway supermassive black hole deep in space, revealing ...
The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), a joint mission between the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) ...
The supermassive black hole sitting at the heart of our galaxy is considered to be a slumbering giant. However, an ...
It sounds like something from the plot of Interstellar, but this plan to beam precious data back to Earth—before it’s lost ...
"This was many times more energetic than any similar event and more than any known explosion powered by the collapse of a ...
Astronomers using W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi Island have uncovered the largest and most extended stream of ...
A wobbling jet from a giant, voracious black hole is suppressing star formation in a distant galaxy—and astronomers have ...
Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...
A wobbling jet from a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy is blasting gas out at a rate high enough to suppress star formation.
A team of researchers recently reported the discovery of AT2024wpp, an extremely energetic event involving a black hole and a massive star locked in a deadly ...
The early universe appears to be littered with enormous star-like balls of gas powered by a black hole at their core, a finding that has taken astronomers by surprise and might solve one of the ...
Supermassive black holes have been found at the center of almost every galaxy, sucking up anything unlucky to fall into its maw — including light itself — through unfathomable gravitational forces.