The latest discovery marks the first-ever "compelling clue" that a black hole may be present in the enigmatic galaxy, ...

This gas needs an enormous amount of energy to shine — more than normal stars can supply. The discovery, based on data from ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a ...

A black hole, seven times the mass of the Sun and located nearly 5,000 light-years away, has been confirmed as the first to ...

A black hole bomb – an idea first proposed in 1969 – has now been realised in the lab as a toy model made from a rotating ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to revisit a misunderstood black hole thought to be gulping ...

Unusual signals called quasi periodic eruptions appear to come from black holes, but we don't know what creates them. Now ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

Some thought it was a stellar-mass black hole, while others thought it might be a less massive neutron star. Prior to the discovery, every known black hole was gravitationally associated with a ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — 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 ...