The discovery of a black hole miraculously holding onto one nearby and one faraway star may change what we know about how ...

There's evidence out there for the supernova model of black hole formation. This is when a dying star erupts in a colossal ...

Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with two black holes orbiting far from each other in long ...

The team used data from Nasa’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble space telescope and Nasa’s Neutron Star Interior ...

Dark matter could produce faint flashes of light when interacting with tiny black holes, new theoretical research suggests. These flashes could one day help scientists locate and study the ...

But a fraction of material is ejected before an object falls in, forming a jet on either side of the black ... the team spotted 10,000 new black hole jet pairs. A paper describing the pairs ...

Supermassive black holes are some of the most impressive (and scary) objects in the universe—with masses around 1 billion times more than that of the sun. And we know they've been around for a ...

1️⃣ Cosmic wonder: Astronomers have spotted a massive pair of jets releasing material from a distant black hole. The jets are so large they span about 140 Milky Way galaxies and could answer ...

Star explosions called novas are happening twice as often near a gargantuan black hole jet as they are in the rest of the galaxy, and astronomers aren't sure why. Astronomers using the Hubble ...

OPINION: “Black on Both Sides” managed to be political, entertaining and jammin’ in a way that few albums have managed since. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the ...

In 1999, that was the Mos Def experience. When “Black on Both Sides” dropped in October 1999 — October 12 to be exact — Mos somehow managed to release an album that was excessively Black ...