X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...

X-ray telescopes catch a black hole firing ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s, revealing how flares trigger extreme cosmic ...

The center of the Milky Way is super bright because it’s packed with a lot of stars and a supermassive black hole. That black ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

Astronomers have spotted the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen, a cosmic explosion that lasted seven hours — and they ...

Leading X-ray space telescopes XMM-Newton and XRISM have spotted a never-seen-before blast from a supermassive black hole. In ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Intermediate mass black holes (IMBH), if they exist, have between about 100 and 1,000 solar masses, placing them in between ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...