Scientists have confirmed the first known solitary black hole. It’s a rogue, companionless object drifting through our galaxy ...

The last decade has brought a new way to explore the universe. Gravitational wave astronomy, made possible by observatories ...

"We want to understand how these galaxies are forming stars, how many stars they’re forming, and especially how the black ...

The quasi-periodic eruptions of X-rays from a black hole 300 million light-years away are unlike any researchers have ever ...

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole ...

A scientist from Tokyo Metropolitan University has solved the longstanding problem of a "dissonance" in gravitational waves emitted by ...

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

No explosive birth needed: The discovery suggests this black hole likely formed through direct collapse, a quiet implosion ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Quasars are distant galaxies ... X-Ray Flashes from a Nearby Supermassive Black Hole Accelerate Mysteriously Jan. 13, 2025 — Astronomers observed flashes of X-rays coming from a supermassive ...

Hubble is still going strong 35 years after it was launched into space. Celebrate its anniversary with some out-of-this-world images.