"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Magnetic fields twist around the black hole as it rotates to store energy – kind of like when you pull and twist a rubber band. When you release the rubber band, it snaps forward. Similarly, the ...

Black holes may not be as life-destroying as we thought. A surprising study reveals that the powerful radiation from active ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three ...

While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Sometimes a galaxy’s supermassive black hole “wakes up” due to a sudden influx of gas ... of millions of years – a process impossible to track directly in the real universe. These sophisticated ...

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the width of the Milky Way. While scanning space for signs of dying stars, 17-year ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...