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For the first time ever, scientists have seen the light from behind a black hole. Black holes are regions in space-time where gravity’s pull is so powerful that not even...

Keck Observatory and NSF’s NOIRLab both announced on January 12, 2021, that astronomers have located an object that sets a new record for being the most distant quasar and thus...

A massive maelstrom that raged in the universe’s youth could help scientists better understand how galaxies and their central black holes interact. Most, if not all, galaxies harbor a supermassive...

«These were not events where the black holes munched on the neutron stars like the Cookie Monster and flung bits and pieces about,» one physicist said. After more than four...

At the dark hearts of galaxies like the Milky Way lie supermassive black holes, with millions or even billions of times the sun’s mass. Some of those supermassive black holes...

A recent article published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, led by Dr. Kostas Kouroumpatzakis, of the Institute of Astrophysics at the Foundation for Research and Technology,...

A long time ago, in two galaxies about 900 million light-years away, two black holes each gobbled up their neutron star companions, triggering gravitational waves that finally hit Earth in...

Palomar 5 is a unique star cluster. In a paper published today in Nature Astronomy, an international team of astrophysicists led by the University of Barcelona show that distinguishing features...

A team of researchers at the International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics has found evidence that suggests Sagittarius A* is not a massive black hole but is instead a mass of...

In 2019, astronomers released the first direct image of a black hole, a feat that made headlines and boggled minds all over the world. The black hole was a supermassive...