Astronomers capture the twinkle of a distant quasar, RX J1131, and reveal the secret size of a black hole's fiery corona.

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Ever since humans first gazed up at the night sky, the Universe has filled us with awe and wonder. Lately, however, it's also ...

Two clashing ideas about disorder inside black holes now point to the same strange conclusions, and it could reshape the ...

In fact, these jets often expand into wide plumes or “lobes” that fan out far above and below their host galaxies. The jets ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Black holes are cosmic voids where not even light can escape. So the idea that they can shine seems to violate every law of ...

A new mathematical model of a wormhole suggests that two black holes can be “cut and pasted.” Cut and paste is an official ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...