Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

A Yale University-led team of scientists say they’ve made a groundbreaking discovery: the possible birth of a supermassive ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

A collision observed between two black holes, each more massive than a hundred suns, is the largest merger of its kind ever ...

“Third, as an unexpected bonus, it turns out that both galaxy nuclei also have an active supermassive black hole. So, this ...

The merger wasn’t just the biggest ever, but also an event so rare that it challenges existing models for black hole genesis.

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

An international team of physicists discovered the largest-ever merger of 2 black holes through a phenomenon known as gravitational waves.

Named GW 231123 after the date it was recorded on 23 November 2023, it's the most massive black hole collision we've seen yet ...