Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

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

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

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

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...

Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...