Scientists flew the XL-Calibur telescope on a high-altitude balloon to measure polarized X-rays from Cygnus X-1. These ...

Past research about black hole births rarely included magnetic fields or the spins of the precursor stars. But considering ...

Some people may worry about being bitten by a snake or spider, but have you ever considered what would happen if a small ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part it is because they have a tendency to ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

What happens if you travel through a black hole? Witness the mind-bending physics, time distortions, and cosmic unknowns of a ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

Fresh observations of two merging black holes confirm predictions made by Stephen Hawking based on Albert Einstein’s theory. A decade after the first detection of gravitational waves from two merging ...

In 2023, scientists detected the gravitational waves from a black hole collision that seemed impossible. New research finally ...

The black hole was bigger than expected, and while the answer was hiding in plain sight, it still rewrites what we thought ...