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 ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

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

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...

Scientists have potentially solved the mystery behind LIGO's forbidden black hole pair, GW231123, through new computer simulations involving fast-spinning, magnetized stars.