Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the very first time, and it’s shedding new light on the complex physics driving ...

Since 2018, we've seen 1ES 1927+654 generate jets in real time and found it may have a lone white dwarf orbiting near the ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary ...

A cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed astronomers. Now, a research team has studied ...

"At first, I thought I completely messed up during our research," Olivia Achenbach of the United States Naval Academy told ...

The night sky has always played a crucial role in navigation, from early ocean crossings to modern GPS. Besides stars, the ...

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

Astronomers are now confident the Event Horizon Telescope can help them decode elusive origins of black hole jets.

You’ll go from “wait, what’s a black hole?” to confidently explaining quantum physics (or something close to it). Fire it up on any of your devices and let the binge-worthy learning begin.

A zoomed-in look at the merging black hole system is inset ... And this year, the James Webb telescope didn't help after confirming that yes, Virginia, the Hubble tension is very real.

Since its launch on Christmas Day, 2021, the James Webb Space Telescope ... these black holes got so big so early — but JWST could also help answer that question. In the past decade, cosmologists have ...