This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

Q: If the gravity of a black hole is so strong that nothing can escape from it, not even light, how has the Hubble Space Telescope recorded images of gas jets ejected from black holes?

While solitary black holes should be common, they are hard to find. The one in Sagittarius revealed itself when it passed in front of a dim background star, magnifying the star’s light and slowly ...

Astronomers have reached deeper into the heart of a brilliant cosmic engine than ever before, using NASA’s Hubble Space ...

A black hole ... XMM-Newton X-ray space telescope and NASA’s Chandra, NICER, and Swift telescopes at Ansky. Hernández-García and collaborators then determined the black hole was displaying ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope project have released images of a distant ...

Astronomers are applying new image-processing techniques to previously released Hubble observations in honor of the space ...

In a nutshell Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole from the early universe that’s barely feeding — suggesting ...

Our team will study how these supermassive black holes could be intimately linked to the whole of the galaxy.” “We formed an initial group of about 30 others around the world to make preparation ...

A new study of 263 galaxies has provided fresh evidence to support a theory that our universe is the interior of a black hole. Using data from Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers at ...

JUNE 26, 2024 — Lulu Zhang started thinking about proposal ideas to gain time on the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ... scientists who were awarded time on the JWST telescope for research on black ...

The glare is overwhelming, and it hides the fine details around the black hole. But with the help of Hubble’s Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS), astronomers have found a way around the ...