The reddish object in this infrared image is ULASJ1234+0907, located about 11 billion light-years from Earth. The red color comes…
Swift J1745-26, with a scale of the moon as it would appear in the field of view from Earth. This…
Astronomers have known for some time there was one star orbiting fairly close to the black hole at the center…
Frame from a simulation of the merger of two black holes and the resulting emission of gravitational radiation (NASA/C. Henze)…
When a star suffered an untimely demise at the hands of a hidden black hole, astronomers detected its doleful, ululating…
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS-III) has released the largest three-dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes…
From a NASA press release: Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after…
Here is the first image taken by the newest space mission, NuSTAR, or the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, the first…
Scientists have determined a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of…
In this edition of the Weekly Space Hangout, we welcome a new participant: Mike Wall, senior writer at Space.com. We…