Astronomers have detected a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way—an unprecedented discovery made possible by ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

The basic idea is that you send a beam of light around a pair of black holes spinning around each other prior to a merger, or a single black hole spinning quickly, and use the higher-energy ...

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

Hubble’s 35‑year celebration brings a vibrant reimagining of the Sombrero Galaxy, revealing hidden dust lanes and far‑flung ...

A team of astrophysicists in India have traced an intermedia black hole (IMBH) located in a faint galaxy about 4.3 million ...

Dr. Suvendu Rakshit, a key researcher in the study, emphasized the significance of the discovery while acknowledging that the search for IMBHs is far from complete.

Most people know that black holes are kind of scary. Admittedly, that's true, but black holes are so much more than that.

The Hubble Space Telescope launched on April 24, 1990, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-31), and deployed into Earth ...