A binary system 18,000 light-years away, emits X-rays as a Sun-like star orbits a dense companion, either a neutron star or black hole. Telescopes like Chandra, IXPE, and XMM-Newton capture its ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...

When the JWST came to life and began observations, one of its first jobs was to gaze back in time at the early universe. The ...

Astronomers searching for massive black holes shredding stars found one in an unusual place -- 2,600 light years from the core of a galaxy. The roque black hole may be from an earlier merger with ...

The largest sample of galaxy groups ever detected has been presented by a team of international astronomers using data from the James Webb Space telescope (JWST) in an area of the sky called COSMOS ...

A stunning new image sent back from the world's most expensive space telescope, the James Webb Space Telescope, shows the ...

For a supermassive black hole to turn into a quasar, something must bring material for it to feed on near to it. This is ...

Lu Lu looks forward to the next two decades of neutrino astrophysics, exploring the remarkable detector concepts needed to ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight ...

Supermassive black holes are behemoths that weigh in at several million to billion times the mass of our own sun. Like their ...

Black holes are objects that are so dense that not even light can escape their gravitational pull. Created from the ...

In an astonishing discovery, scientists have found that winds blowing from supermassive black holes are not smooth and steady ...