"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." ...

This image shows quasar Markarian 231, the closest one to Earth, glowing with starlike brilliance. This image hints at two supermassive black holes spinning together at its centre. Green peas are an ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

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

Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive ...

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

Unlike a planet or star, black holes don't have surfaces. Instead, they have a boundary called an "event horizon," or a point of no return. If anything swoops too close, it will fall in ...