The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

A distant supermassive black hole has stunned astronomers by expelling matter at speeds nearing a third of light velocity after consuming material at an extreme rate. Designated PG1211+143, this ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

The discovery was made when researchers studied the supermassive-black-hole -powered Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) of a Seyfert galaxy located about 1.2 billion light-years away.

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

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