Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has ...

In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a ...

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

Because black holes swallow all light, astronomers can't spot them directly like they do the many glittery ... and astronomers can look for stars that seem to orbit nothing to detect a likely ...

It's the biggest shopping day of the year, and the Atlanta Braves, like all of us, have a wishlist of things they'd like to ...

WATCH: Here’s the first image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy The world got a look Thursday at the first wild but fuzzy image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, altering our understanding of black hole dynamics. A team of astrophysicists from ...

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

It describes the maximum amount of brightness that an accreting system like a black hole can have, when the gravitational forces and outward radiation pressure are in balance. This limit on ...

We've never seen anything like it – and it's a discovery that could help us unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the early Universe: how supermassive black holes get so incredibly massive in such ...

A team of astronomers discovered an old black hole that eats up matter at a rate 40 times faster than the Eddington limit.