Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

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 ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.