Using NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space.

NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A. Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope ...

Imagine a cosmic sledgehammer hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light, suddenly smacking into something ...

NASA has shared audio captured from inside a black hole - and it sounds like something ripped straight out of a ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. Now, a research team has shown that ... Binary Star Found Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Dec. 17, 2024 — An ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a new theory suggests. Nothing is supposed to escape a black hole's event ...

The quasar, named APM 08279 5255, contains water vapour equating to 140 trillion times the volume of Earth’s oceans ...

The thinking goes like this: When the universe was still small, in the first second after the Big Bang, all the matter that has ever existed was crammed into a tiny space. Since black holes form ...

Quasars are powered by supermassive black holes that voraciously consume surrounding material. They are part of a broader group of active galactic nuclei and are essential to understanding galaxy ...

The supermassive black hole (center ... in the region surrounding the black hole and lasted around three days. Remarkably, this flare emerged from a space less than three light-days wide ...