James Webb Space Telescope observes mid-infrared flare from Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, revealing flare evolution, synchrotron cooling, and magnetic field measurements.
An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...
On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...
The singularity of a black hole represents not a point in space but the end of time itself, beyond human understanding.
The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...
The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...
A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...
Enthralling and perplexing, black holes continue to inspire the pens of many science fiction writers and screenwriters. But ...
A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.
Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...
Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...
Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...