A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Black holes, with their event horizons trapping anything that enters, and accretion disks glowing from accumulated matter, ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

The image shows the supermassive black hole that lies at the heart of our galaxy about 26,000 light-years away.

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

While peering into the galaxy using JWST's infrared vision, researchers discovered outflows of gas surrounding the hungry ...

Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany ...

The black hole in V404 Cygni could have resulted from ... other 2024 event that’s out of this world with our space and astronomy calendar. Two black holes are in the news: One is a serial ...

Rory Bricca ’26 presented his piece on Active Galactic Nuclei during the Annual Astronomy Department Jamboree, sourcing ...

Astronomers have discovered that shifts in the corona around black holes lead to dramatic flares of X-rays, observable through advanced telescopes. This phenomenon involves a process where the corona ...