A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

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

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Research led by the University of Michigan has pored over more than two decades' worth of data from NASA's Chandra X-Ray ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

LID-568 was previously identified by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, but observing it was challenging due to its faint ...

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers studied the jets of a black hole at the center of Centaurus A, watching ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Understanding how these black holes managed to grow so rapidly in the early universe has posed significant challenges.

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...