Astronomers have confirmed a wandering black hole, about seven times the mass of the Sun, 5,000 light-years from Earth.

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray space telescope have witnessed a massive black hole jet slam into an unknown object in space. Astronomers have seen black hole jets blasting cosmic objects ...

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black hole at the galactic core. But the source remains unknown.

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

Astrophotographer Ron Brecher has captured a stunning deep sky image of the spiral galaxy M106, located 23.5 million light ...

Scientists have used this effect to identify over two dozen black holes in our own galaxy and over 150 more in other galaxies. In 2011, researchers from the Space Telescope Science Institute ...

First Data from XRISM Space Mission Provides New Perspective on Supermassive Black Holes Sep. 30, 2024 — Data from an international space mission is confirming decades worth of speculation about ...

A team of US astronomers led by Kailash Sahu said they have finally discovered the first isolated stellar-mass black hole traveling through space by itself. The researchers initially spotted this ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is celebrating its 35th anniversary in space today, but even as a senior citizen in the spacecraft ...

The High Desert Astronomical Society is hosting the free gather, which will feature telescopes, activities and experts from NASA and Caltech, organizers said.

With his time, the UTSA researcher will dive into supermassive black holes, which will help to understand the ... and the data will travel one million miles from JWST through the Deep Space Network.