A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often said that lightning never strikes the same place twice, black holes seem to ...

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

"These are the first JWST observations of tidal disruption events, and they look nothing like what we’ve ever seen before." ...

Because we are embedded within the Milky Way, observing its structure and contents can be challenging due to gas and dust blocking our view ...

ESO/L. Calçada, N. Risinger (skysurvey.org), DSS, VISTA, VVV Survey/D. Minniti DSS, Nogueras-Lara et al., Schoedel, NACO, ...

Supermassive black holes, sitting at the core of galaxies, are known to be active and emit a lot of X-rays. Finding one way ...

Get to know how India's AstroSat, the country’s first space observatory, uncovered astonishing black hole behavior in GRS ...

India's space observatory, AstroSat, has shed new light on the mysterious behavior of a distant black hole named GRS 1915+105 ...

They found a repeating pattern: a few hundred seconds of dim X-ray light, followed by a similar period of bright light.

The Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* — our ...

A rogue, middle-mass black hole has been spotted disrupting an orbiting star in the halo of a distant galaxy, and it's all ...