Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate ...

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

Astronomers working with the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected patterns showing ...

The Hubble Space Telescope's evidence of an "intermediate-sized" black hole about 6000 light-years away in the closest globular star cluster to our home planet. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight ...