Black hole singularities should not exist, according to theories of quantum mechanics. New tweaks to Einstein's equations of ...

Astronomers analyzing M87*, the first black hole ever imaged, have discovered that its shadow changes from year to year. The ...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the ...

Scientists are working to identify an oddly pulsating, supermassive black hole ( SMBH) that pulled a really weird stunt. More ...

A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...

DESI, which will be scanning the sky for five more years, is expected to observe around 40 million galaxies and quasars ...

"Dramatic activity serves as a beacon, allowing us to identify hidden black holes in these small galaxies." ...

Reader Jayant Bhalerao, a college physics instructor, found the story useful in class: “We will share it with our students, so that they can appreciate how ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

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The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...