Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, general relativity, is famously incomplete. As proven by physics Nobel laureate Roger ...

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...

Hubble probes Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies: This is an artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at ...

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one color (black) and one shape (spherical). The main ...

The simulation shows that as you get closer to the black hole, time starts to slow down, with the effect getting stronger as keep closing in. What is a few seconds for you, ‘becomes a few hours for ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

If you’ve ever witnessed a solar eclipse, you might recall the Sun’s corona — its outermost atmosphere — a halo of glowing ...

The quasars are powered by black holes that are up to ten billion times the mass of the Sun. The black hole's gravity pulls ...