The Hubble Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory saw an enigmatic intermediate-mass black hole lighting up in X-rays, ...

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Black holes are among the most mysterious and mind-bending objects in the universe. Far from being just regions of extreme ...

Black holes are one of the most fascinating and mysterious phenomena in the universe. These cosmic giants have such immense gravitational pull that they distort the very fabric of space and time ...

An international team of astronomers has captured one of the most detailed images yet of a spectacular, ribbon-like jet ...

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The object, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, first appeared in 2009. Chandra caught the bright X-ray flash near the galaxy’s outskirts.

Star AT 2022dbl wandered close to black hole but was only partially destroyed; Tel Aviv University researchers say discovery ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

When the JWST began science observations in July 2022, it flung open a whole new window on the universe. The JWST looked ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

Joseph Giaime, head of the observatory, joined Louisiana Considered to talk to us about the event’s significance, and how ...