"GW241011 and GW241110 are among the most novel events among the several hundred that the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network has ...
Astronomers had long suspected that certain quasars—those brilliant, otherworldly light sources fueled by supermassive black holes—could harbor two black holes rather than one. That theory, long ...
Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...
Astronomers have been astounded by the discovery of a rogue black hole that has emitted an unprecedented radio blast, marking ...
Astronomers recently found a black hole that’s blowing everyone’s minds. This black hole is so massive and strange, it’s ...
For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...
Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...
Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.
Small and unassuming, Segue 1 is a nearby dwarf galaxy containing only a handful of stars—too few to provide the gravity ...
An international team of astronomers has discovered the first tidal disruption event (TDE) producing bright radio emission ...
UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in a blistering 11.5 years — the shortest known orbit of any star ...
First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio telescope.