black holes

On the night of November 23, 2014, a powerful telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii was trying to pick out the enigmatic…

When the universe was a fledgling billion years old, a galaxy spewed a ginormous, fast-moving jet of radiation and…

A star 215 million light-years away has been obliterated by a supermassive black hole, making it the closest…

A remote structure consisting of a supermassive black hole, several primordial galaxies, and copious amounts of gas…

Scientists are learning important new things about the first-ever directly imaged black hole, including behaviors…

There’s a cloudy patch of space inside our galaxy that unexpectedly produces gamma radiation at clockwork-like…

Two years ago, astronomers watched in confusion as the corona of a supermassive black hole quickly faded from view,…

You may have heard about Planet Nine—a hypothetical planet thought to exist in the outer reaches of the solar…

An unusually bright star has gone missing, in a mystery of cosmic proportions.

Black holes aren’t supposed to leak any light when they smash into each other—or at least that’s what physicists…

Astronomers are puzzling over observations that show a black hole smashing into a mystery object of unusual size.

This black hole—if that’s really what it is—is so close to Earth that you can see its star system without a…

Last year, scientists published a paper with an iconic diagram: a black circle representing, to scale, a…

Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope’s launch, and NASA’s celebrating its birthday…

Scientists think that they’ve spotted a black hole’s gravity bending light emitted from the disk of matter around it…

A worldwide network of telescopes has produced an image of a jet of radio waves appearing to blast out from the…

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope have detected quasars sending outbursts of energy roaring through their…

A typical neutron star measures 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) wide, according to new research. It’s the most accurate…

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft set out on September 8, 2016 to study the asteroid Bennu. But last fall, one of its…

Physicists are reporting the results of a test to squeeze the vacuum of spacetime itself in order to better detect…