Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

Scientists may have cracked one of the biggest mysteries in space science, determining that supermassive black holes bent the ...

Space-time may not be continuous but instead made up of many discrete bits – and we may be able to see their effects near the ...

The researchers found that the emitted dark matter would ring space-time like a bell around the black hole. It would not be ...

A recent study sheds light on how supermassive black holes formed so quickly within the first billion years after the Big ...

Black holes are one of the most enigmatic stellar objects. While best known for swallowing up their surroundings into a gravity pit from which nothing can escape, they can also shoot off powerful jets ...

New research uncovers how black holes inherit magnetic fields from collapsing neutron stars, explaining their powerful jets.

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

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Black holes in a pair of merging galaxies, known as UGC4211, are devouring gas and dust that is "being displaced by the ...