A high-altitude balloon telescope has revealed new patterns in X-rays emitted near the black hole Cygnus X-1. These signals give scientists a clearer picture of how gas and radiation behave in the ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

New observations made with the ERIS instrument at the Very Large Telescope facility disprove the assumption that the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way devours nearby dust objects ...

A supermassive black hole, named TXS 2013+370 and weighing 400 million times more than the Sun, has been observed firing deadly gamma-ray flares towards Earth.

Rybicki, M. (2025) Black Hole as a Topological Hole in the Fabric of Spacetime. Journal of Modern Physics, 16, 1799-1817. doi ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

A newly proposed type of supermassive black hole surrounded by a dense gas shell may account for the small red dots seen in ...

Scientists have discovered that the redshift galaxy CANUCS-LRD-z8.6 has an unusually large accretion black hole for its ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

"The discovery of this stream highlights how much is still unknown about the life histories of galaxies, how the hidden ...