Fly about 2,600 light-years to Hubble Space Telescope imagery of the Cygnus loop nebula. See images from 2001 and 2020.

Ever since general relativity pointed to the existence of black holes, the scientific community has been wary of one peculiar ...

NGC 4945, a beautiful spiral galaxy over 12 million light-years away, hides a ferocious secret: a ravenous black hole at its ...

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 ...

Researchers have created a "black hole bomb" in the lab for the first time. In 1972, physicists William Press and Saul Teukolsky described a theoretical phenomenon called a black hole bomb ...

"Our findings pave the way for rigorous examinations of black holes and the exploration of new physics in gravity." Cosmic echoes from some of the universe's most violent collisions are far more ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have peered into galaxies that existed at cosmic noon to hunt ravenously ...

Using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array, astronomers have revealed for the first time the huge flow ...

Supermassive black hole at the Milky Way’s center, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, showing a glowing ring around a dark center. A black hole 6.5 billion times the ...