Astronomers discover unique collision between black hole jet and unidentified object in Centaurus A galaxy, shedding new ...

"As fascinating as the galaxy appears at visible wavelengths, some of NGC 5643's most interesting features are invisible to ...

Astrophysics breakthrough: new evidence unravels the mystery of how massive elliptical galaxies form, shedding light on their ...

NASA's scientists have been baffled by the discovery of a mysterious object in the plasma plume of a distant supermassive ...

NASA's discovery of blanets, hypothetical black hole planets, challenges planetary formation theories and explores the possibility of life in extreme space environments.

This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...

A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it nothing ...

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole's powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path.

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

Most galaxies are thought to play host to black holes. At the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light years away, a jet is being fired out into space. Images that have been captured by NASA’s ...

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...