A supermassive black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 just delivered an X-ray surprise that astronomers have never watched ...

In 2019, the world was mesmerized by the first-ever image of a black hole, courtesy of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). The striking image depicted the supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

New observations reveal that the relationship between ultraviolet and X-ray light in quasars has changed over billions of ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...

This doomed star keeps tripping over the shredded remains of its predecessor, and it’s kicking up flashes of x-rays. At some point not very long ago in a galaxy relatively nearby, a star ventured too ...

"How and where particles are accelerated in the jets of supermassive black holes has been a long-standing mystery." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope peers at a jet blasting forth from the central supermassive black hole of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light-years from Earth. Credit: D. Bogensberger et al.

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by the universe's most extreme environments. Reading time 2 minutes A group ...

"For XRISM, Cygnus X-3 is a Goldilocks target." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and ...

Black holes are weird. They’re one of the few things in the universe that manage to be terrifying, fascinating, and invisible all at the same time. But here’s the real head-scratcher: if no light can ...

It’s the greatest cosmic murder mystery of the year: How did a black hole destroy a star—and what kind of black hole is the culprit? Normally, so-called “gamma ray bursts,” sudden flashes of extremely ...