Astronomers are very familiar with the twin jets launched from the poles of supermassive black holes. These structures can ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Rethinking the Underlying Trigger of Quasar Jets Building on the groundbreaking 2020 discovery of newborn jets in several ...

Dec. 20, 2024 — One of the biggest mysteries in science -- dark energy -- doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding.

U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers, using data from the James Webb Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, have discovered an early universe supermassive black hole ...

Astronomers compile a large sample of an unusual class of objects in an effort to connect the dots to the early universe.

The owner of The Mirror has discovered a £5m black hole in one of its pension schemes in the latest setback for the ...

A project is underway to investigate the production of “dark” oxygen further. Understanding the phenomenon better could help ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal how and where they were born, and gravitational waves offer a way to decode this ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

A team of astronomers sifted through James Webb Space Telescope data from multiple surveys to compile one of the largest ...