While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

New research that used imaging from the James Webb Space Telescope gives credence to a scientific theory that says the Milky ...

New research challenges our understanding of black holes, proposing they may not be cosmic dead ends after all.

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

Researchers propose that our universe rotates inside a black hole, raising new questions about cosmology and the structure of ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

There is a supermassive black hole at the center of nearly every big galaxy—including ours, the Milky Way (it's called ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...