A black hole bomb - an idea first proposed in 1969 - has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have discovered evidence that suggests the presence of a long-sought supermassive black hole at the heart of the nearby spiral galaxy ...

To mark the 35th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope, Space.com looks at some of the most scientifically significant images that have emerged from the observatory's lens.

The Hubble Space Telescope marks its 35th anniversary with a stunning new image of the Sombrero Galaxy. This detailed view ...

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

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Scientists have found a giant ocean in space, and it's absolutely insane. 🌌 It's not just any ocean — it's 140 trillion ...

In 2018 astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed previously unseen behavior from a black hole known as 1ES 1927+654, which ...

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 ...

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 ...

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