By exploring ideas like a "black hole universe," we are not just studying space. We are learning about our own cosmic origins, our place in the grand scheme of things, and perhaps even what lies ...

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra X-ray Telescop team takes you on a tour of the system. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

First up is WR 124, a type of star called a Wolf-Rayet which is a potential precursor to a black hole. As these old, massive stars come to the end of their lives, they start throwing off layers of ...

NASA coined the moniker inspired by Steven Spielberg's famous 1975 film for the supermassive black hole after the agency's telescopes uncovered it lurking like a cosmic predator 600 million light ...

NASA finds supermassive black hole called ‘Space Jaws:’ Why it deserves sci-fi horror name A sneaky black hole was the source of a tidal disruption event that was so large and so bright that ...

NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope have been used to study a cluster of stars, nicknamed “Nikhuli," that may be acting as a black hole "delivery system." Credit: NASA ...

Meanwhile, the galaxy’s central black hole is more than 100 times larger, looming in the background like a cosmic kingpin that somehow didn’t notice— or didn’t care —that a rogue cousin ...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the cosmos, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a terrifying, roving, oft-invisible monster dubbed "Space Jaws." Lurking 600 million light ...

The previously inactive supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728, located about 300 million light-years away from us, was seen erupting with the longest and most powerful X ...

The U.S. military's mini space shuttle, the X-37B, returned after a 434-day mission. Launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in December 2023 by SpaceX, the secretive unmanned mission ended at ...

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

This suggests that NGC 5084 is host to a supermassive black hole tipped on its side, and scientists think it could be evidence of a galactic collision in NGC 5084’s recent past.