Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

X-rays are a common component of diagnostic testing and industrial monitoring, used for everything from monitoring your teeth to scanning your suitcase at the airport. But the high-energy rays also ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

An international team of astronomers has inspected long-term evolution of quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) from a QPE source designated eRO-QPE2. The study found that QPEs from this source are ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Liftoff occurred at 7:31 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40. The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron had only forecast 40% odds of favorable weather during the launch window, citing liftoff winds ...

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