Every now and again, a stellar object is caught zooming across space like a white rabbit, extremely late for a very important ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...

A new study, appearing in The Astrophysical Journal and based on observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, ...

Smaller black holes tend to attract less material, making them naturally dimmer. Chandra would miss many of these faint ...

Astronomers usually detect black holes by looking for X-rays. When gas and dust fall toward a black hole, they heat up and ...

New Chandra X-ray study finds many dwarf galaxies may not host central massive black holes, challenging long-held assumptions about galaxy formation and black hole origins ...

An ultramassive black hole so huge it could swallow 30 billion suns has emerged from the cosmic background, revealed not by ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

A black hole 30 million times the mass of the sun has produced winds one-fifth the speed of light, stunning scientists.

NASA’s Chandra telescope uses a new X-arithmetic method to compare X-ray energies and show how supermassive black holes shape galaxy clusters and galaxy groups, revealing differences in gas movement a ...

Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope spotted huge stars leaking nitrogen in an early galaxy, hinting that such ...