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 ...

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

A colossal census of the cosmos has more than tripled the number of active black holes known to reside in miniature galaxies ... Santa Cruz. She lives near Boston. We are at a critical time and ...

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

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

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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

From the observatory of the Chandra X-ray Observatory of NASA and several other telescopes, this observation provides critical information about the tidal disruption events and their more recent ...

For a long time, astronomers believed that extremely high-energy radiation was produced only in the jets of active galaxies, far from Earth. But new observations from the High-Altitude Water Cherenkov ...

A star cluster just outside the Milky Way known as Omega Centauri appears to have a black hole at its center according to new ...

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 ...