Astronomers observed a star wobbling around a spinning black hole, revealing rare evidence of Einstein’s frame-dragging ...
Astronomers are learning more about the origins of supermassive black holes after new data is revealed from a 20-year-long ...
NGC 6278 and PGC 039620 are two galaxies from a sample of 1,600 that were searched for the presence of supermassive black ...
The two galaxies shown here, NGC 6278 and PGC 039620, are representative of the more than 1,600 galaxies analyzed in a new study. Both galaxies are ...
Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...
A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...
Most scientists agree the prolonged flash likely occurred when a black hole ate a star, but two other ideas can't be ruled ...
Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...
NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...
Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...
NASA observed GRB 250702B, a record-setting gamma-ray burst lasting days, likely caused by a black hole consuming a star, ...