As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

Even matter ejected by black holes can run into objects in the dark. Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky ...

The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of ...

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny ...

A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it nothing ...

This breathtaking new Hubble Space Telescope image highlights the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 5643, located about 40 million ...