Black holes swallow everything—including light—which explains why we can't see them. But we can observe their immediate surroundings and learn…
Using data from multiple observstories, a team of astronomers has discovered a monster blackhole right in our backyard!
Astronomers using the ALMA Observatory have discovered an unusual, massive star near the center of our galaxy, a star that…
A new study by an international team shows how the physics of a black hole's event horizon could allow us…
In March 2018 astronomers watched a massive black hole surge in brightness. Then over the following year, its ring of…
The Chandra X-Ray Observatory has spotted a distant black hole shooting out jets of material, at close to the speed…
A new study led by Caltech researchers show that light can be reflected off of a black hole's disk by…
There's a lot going on at the center of our galaxy. A supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A-Star resides there,…
For the first time ever, an international team of astronomers - using the ALMA array - have taken a clear…
The discovery of a millisecond pulsar orbiting a low-mass white dwarf star has astronomers puzzled, mainly because its orbit defies…