A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves ...

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

The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

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

In the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang, something strange happened: many massive black holes already ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

For the first time, scientists have managed to spot a lonely black hole drifting through space thanks to its gravity ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star Cluster Dec. 9, 2024 — Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found compelling evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of ...