One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

Primordial black holes are ancient mysteries, born in the universe’s earliest seconds. Unlike regular black holes, they weren ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

"The singularity is the most mysterious and problematic part of a black hole. It's where our concepts of space and time ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

In spiral galaxies, for example, less gas tends to fall into the center, and the central black hole tends to have less energy. One of the ways they generate energy is through what scientists call ...