In a galaxy 7.5 billion light-years away, a supermassive black hole shoots out streams of magnetized plasma that span 140 Milky Ways in length. This mind-boggling structure—nicknamed Porphyrion, after ...
Primordial black holes may be exploding throughout the universe. If we can catch them in the act, it could pave the way to ...
Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...
A recent cosmic discovery reveals a black hole tearing apart one star and hurling its remains at another. This event links ...
Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...
At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...
As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center. Astronomers have even found these enormous celestial monsters in the early ...
An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...
These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary object—such as a star, a much denser neutron star, or another black hole—that spiral around each other, drawn together by the black ...