Black holes are dark, matter-devouring balls of gravity. Most of them are so far away that we don't need to worry about them. But not this one. Meet Gaia BH1. This enormous black hole sits right ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

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Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Jessica Chastain and Anne Hathaway, hit theaters 10 years ago ...

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A newly discovered black hole has been ... cores extremely far from Earth, they found that one was glowing with unusual intensity. While invisible in the visible and near-infrared parts of the ...

University of Michigan researchers have tapped into two decades of NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory data to unveil fresh insights into the behaviors of cosmic jets emitted by black holes. Their ...