As NASA reports, two astronomers working with raw Webb data the space agency periodically makes available to researchers, ...

The largest black hole collision ever recorded has scientists' jaws on the floor — and scratching their heads.

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

Using ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein, a team of researchers has detected a cosmic merger of unprecedented ...

What occurs when the universe plays a cosmic curveball, breaking down long-standing assumptions about how black holes form?

When a black hole devours a star, some of the celestial material that makes up the star occasionally gets flung out back into space, which astronomers liken to black holes being messy eaters, the ...

More variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy could be a black hole. ESO/L. Calçada. Astronomers are trying to figure out if a star that vanished from view produced a black hole, almost before ...

Black holes are messy eaters, so it’s not unusual for them to fling stellar material back into space. But three years is an uncommonly long time for a black hole to keep its lunch down.

When a massive star expends its fuel, its core collapses into a dense object and sends the rest of its gas outward in an event called a supernova. What’s left is mostly neutron stars or black holes.

Hubble finds hungry black hole twisting captured star into donut shape Date: January 12, 2023 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Black holes are gatherers, not hunters.

Some 500 million light-years away, an unfortunate star the size of our sun is being sucked into a tiny black hole a week at a time — and astronomers stumbled upon this situation because they ...

That's the assessment of what's going on in the core of a galaxy about 300 million light-years away called LEDA 3091738, where a giant black hole nicknamed "Ansky" is being orbited by a much lower ...