In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a ...

The M87 galaxy is home to a supermassive black hole that has a plasma jet that is nearly 3000 light years long. In addition, ...

Researchers using XMM-Newton and Chandra telescopes have linked X-ray emissions from 21 distant quasars to rapid supermassive ...

For decades, astronomers have puzzled over how the supermassive black holes residing in the center of galaxies form. Now, ...

"The results we are obtaining are truly unexpected, and all point to a super Eddington-type growth mechanism for black holes.

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

A recent study in Physical Review Letters explores quantum effects on black hole thermodynamics and geometry, focusing on ...

Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...

Peculiar James Webb Space Telescope observations seem to show gargantuan black holes in the earliest moments of the universe.

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

Scientists developed a new model, which provides mathematical evidence that singularities are hidden inside black holes.