Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it happened.

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

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

NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...

The coordination is crucial since the NRAO operates the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia, which is home to the world’s ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

When a star moves around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) in a close elliptical orbit, it gets partially tidally disrupted ...

Nijmegen master's students predict that LISA, an upcoming space antenna project by the ESA, will detect stronger ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

Since Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope came online in 2022, astronomers have been surprised to find supermassive black holes ...