Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very ...

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of astronomers has discovered lumps of particles within a black hole jet in ...

Astronomers have spotted pure chaos lurking in the cosmos. Thousands of light years away from Earth, a small yet intensely ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

However, precisely how the material is funneled to the jet is poorly understood; prevailing theory suggests powerful, messy ...

The Sagittarius A* supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Galaxy may be "warping the spacetime surrounding it into ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

New research suggests black holes are unstable, challenging Einstein's theory of general relativity and the Kerr solution.

The DESI survey reveals that active black holes in small galaxies are common. The findings may help reveal how the two cosmic bodies evolve together.

Gas swirling around black holes forms disks that are among the most effective energy converters in the universe, emitting ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...