What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...
A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.
Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...
For more than 100 years, physicists have known — at least on paper — that spinning black holes should stir the universe ...
The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.
James Webb Space Telescope confirms the first runaway supermassive black hole in the Cosmic Owl galaxy, observing its tail and bow shock, providing direct evidence of black hole ejection during galaxy ...
NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.
NASA has created an animation to show what likely happened on July 2nd after a black hole appeared to shred a star. For ...
Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...
A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals give scientists a clearer picture of how gas and radiation behave in the ...
New observations suggest that the relationship between light emitted by quasars has changed over cosmic time, hinting that ...