"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

Last summer, researchers announced the first ever detection of a supermassive black hole being spotted as it awoke. The ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

This artist’s impression illustrates the mechanism that could be at the origin of the powerful bursts of X-ray light seen ...

Although we know that supermassive black holes (millions of times the mass of our Sun) lurk at the centre of most galaxies, their very nature makes ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

VISIONS of leaving Earth and launching humanity further into the cosmos are enough to get anyone starry-eyed. But the ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

This black hole has a mass of around four million times that of our sun and exerts supreme tidal forces on its surroundings.

Black holes and quasars are some of the most mysterious entities in the cosmos. Check out these 7 stunning images of black ...

NASA has discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87, 52 million light-years away from Earth. Estimated to be 2.6 billion times the mass of the Sun, this intriguing black hole ...

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...