Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole that dates back to just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, which is gobbling up matter at an astonishing rate. According to their calculations, the black hole ...

Astrophysicists Use Echoes of Light to Illuminate Black Holes Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method ...

KU astronomy hosted a a stargazing and planetarium event on Nov. 7 at Slawson Hall for students, staff and faculty to spend a ...

The Department of Astronomy is a step closer to mapping the final frontiers of space with a research center, which announced ...

The discovery, as detailed in a paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, could help explain why supermassive black holes were able to grow to their immense sizes over a relatively short period of ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...