The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

Einstein's theory of general relativity describes the inevitability of singularities, which are obscured by black holes ...

Space, with its vast, mysterious, and often terrifying nature, has long captivated humanity’s imagination. As we continue to ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

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Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...