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The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

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One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Black holes, once purely theoretical, are now observable phenomena, offering insights into the universe. Their intense ...

Jackson Hole High School rising senior Halina Sanchez-Hernandez turned to her classmates at the Wyoming Karate Club and tied ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...