"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

“But it’s something that fell off the map ... showed that the inside of a black hole is a mishmash—rather unlike the smooth stretching of space and time that Schwarzschild’s earlier ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

What if everything we know—the stars, the galaxies, the expanding fabric of space-time—isn’t floating in a limitless void, but instead exists inside a black hole? It may sound like a work of ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. A black hole is a terrifying concept, but the mysterious nexus of physics and space-time isn’t always gobbling up matter. While ...

“This rare event provides an opportunity for astronomers to observe a black hole’s behavior in real time, using X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and NASA’s NICER, Chandra and Swift,” said Dr. Lorena ...

X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple) and infrared data from NASA's James Webb Space ... time to go from small seeds to supermassive monsters. The growth of black holes is limited ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A stellar mass black hole is a type of black hole that forms from the ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen from a newly awakened black hole named Ansky.