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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

Hypothetically, black hole masses can range all the way from ... an assistant professor of astronomy at Caltech and an adjunct scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany ...

While peering into the galaxy using JWST's infrared vision, researchers discovered outflows of gas surrounding the hungry ...

At the center of a black hole lies the singularity—a point where ... Do you have a question about astronomy? Let us know via [email protected]. Miyoshi, M., Kato, Y., & Makino, J.

2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to be ...

The other is part of what astronomers are calling a black-hole triple, the first known instance of a three-body system that includes a black hole, which is not supposed to be part of the mix ...

Astronomers have discovered that shifts in the corona around black holes lead to dramatic flares of X-rays, observable through advanced telescopes. This phenomenon involves a process where the corona ...

Another star has now been discovered in a system of star and black hole that has been known for years. It is a novelty that raises another question. Almost by chance, a research team from the ...

Understanding the life stories of the stars has been one of the great tasks of astronomy during the last ... completely collapsed object called a black hole. In these objects gravity is so strong ...