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

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating ...

Hubble probes Quasar tsunamis rip across galaxies: This is an artist's concept of a distant galaxy with an active quasar at ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by ...

are confined to vertebrate and arthropod species that have well-developed color vision. Black holes have basically three characteristics: mass, spin and charge. So distinguishing them from one ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...