"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time literally no longer make sense." A team of scientists has developed a recipe ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

New theory posits black holes may transition into ‘white holes’, ejecting matter and potentially even time itself, back into ...

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

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

It is the first time ... black holes grounded in general relativity, which clarified that the ultraluminous accretion disk (i.e., gaseous spiral surrounding a black ... First Data from XRISM Space ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart ... Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe Sgr A* and its disk for hours at a time over the course of a year, from April 2023 through ...

Observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope showed that more galaxies ... universe is actually inside an unfathomably huge black hole, and that most objects rotate in the direction ...

"Black holes are so stealthy that this one has been practically under our noses this whole time." The galaxy next ... super-speed stars using the European Space Agency's star-tracking Gaia ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for galaxies supports the idea that the universe was born in a black hole.

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe.