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

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

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 ...

dark theater of space. The researchers analyzed 22 years of X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory to study the movements and brightness of jet “knots” in the galaxy Centaurus A. These “knots” ...

Black holes are among the most mysterious and influential phenomena in the cosmos. They hold the key to understanding the ...

The Earth would become a black hole. For those who want to know more: black holes warp space-time. It is as if they were tearing deep troughs in an imaginary net in which space and time are interwoven ...

This vast reservoir resides near a supermassive black hole, approximately 20 billion times more massive than our sun.

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

Black holes are some of the most extreme objects in the universe, and a new mission proposal suggests launching a space telescope specifically to study them. The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT ...

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 ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...

is poised to reveal how black holes launch powerful jets into space. An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...