The spins of some early galaxies could be a clue that the entire observable universe exists within a black hole—except, that ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Galaxy NGC 4945 in the constellation of Centaurus (main) and galactic winds flowing out from its supermassive black hole (inset). | Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

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The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 billion years ago.

An eavesdropper hiding inside a black hole could still obtain information about quantum objects on its outside, a finding that reveals how effectively black holes destroy the quantum states near their ...