Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Nov. 7, 2024 — Researchers have developed an innovative technique to search for black hole light echoes. Their novel method, which will make it easier for the mass and the spin of black holes to ...

Astrophysicists have, for the first time, measured the temperature of elementary particles in the radioactive afterglow of a neutron star collision, which led to the formation of a black hole. This br ...

These findings are detailed in a paper titled “A super-Eddington-accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

A team of astronomers has discovered a link between black holes and stellar eruptions, suggesting the potential existence of ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

The Local Hot Bubble was first suggested over 50 years ago, with scientists theorising that a series of supernovas - massive ...

A small ripple that triggers a tidal wave. In the primordial Universe, tiny quantum fluctuations could have had a profound ...

The Department of Astronomy is a step closer to mapping the final frontiers of space with a research center, which announced ...