How astronomers used gravitational lensing, a space-time trick predicted by Einstein, to detect a black hole measuring 30 billion times the mass of the sun.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating that gravitational wave signals from black hole mergers are more complex ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

Sagittarius A* is spinning near top speed with its rotation axis pointing towards Earth. Event Horizon black hole project executed over 12 million computing jobs using distributed computing.

Story highlights Two supermassive black holes carrying the faint light of the Big Bang, 11.6 billion and 11.7 billion light-years away, have been observed shooting jets at great speeds that are ...

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Across 11.6 billion light-years, the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra Observatory have caught a super-massive black hole blasting a jet so huge it could span three Milky Ways. Stranger still, the beam ...

The IFS is projecting council tax bills are set to rise The Public Accounts Committee found that whilst ministers allocated £4.7 billion to support the public sector, including £502 million for ...

An artist’s impression of a tidal disruption event, in which a star is spaghettified and the remains form an accretion disk around the black hole. Typically, about half the star’s mass is drawn into ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate. That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing ...