At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Black holes have such extreme gravity that not even light can escape. They have been caught shredding entire stars and can ...

The first direct visual evidence of the supermassive black hole in the centre of Messier 87 and its shadow. Event Horizon ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has found perhaps its most profound discovery to date. The uncovered preferred direction for ...

For this reason black holes are invisible to the eye, as lightless as the empty, dark space surrounding them. Scientists know they exist not because they can see an actual hole, b ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a surprising galaxy rotation pattern, where two-thirds rotate clockwise and ...

At the center of our galaxy, hidden behind dense clouds of gas and dust, the black hole Sagittarius A* rotates rapidly, ...

When massive stars explode as supernovae, they can leave behind neutron stars. Other than black holes, these are the densest ...

Scientists have discovered an extraordinarily massive black hole weighing an astounding 36 billion solar masses, challenging ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...