Astronomers have used an X-ray spacecraft called XRISM to observe powerful winds blowing from a neutron star — the findings ...

Ten years ago, astronomers made history when they first detected ripples in spacetime, called gravitational waves, from the ...

For the first time, scientists measured a newborn black hole that "kicked" off into space after 2 larger black holes merged ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, ...

"This tells us that the magnetized plasma swirling near the event horizon is far from static; it's dynamic and complex, ...

On September 14, 2015, a signal arrived on Earth, carrying information about a pair of remote black holes that had spiraled ...

Ten years after the first gravitational wave detection, a new suite of instruments has captured distinctive ringing signals ...

Gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded since 2015, capturing hundreds of black hole and neutron star collisions. With ever ...

The polarization pattern around M87* — the first black hole to be directly imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope — has ...

Supermassive black holes discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early universe challenge traditional formation ...

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms ...

New images have revealed the supermassive black hole at the center of galaxy M87 flipping its gravitational field.