Imagine a cosmic sledgehammer hurtling through space at nearly the speed of light, suddenly smacking into something ...
One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.
A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...
The telescope has offered an unprecedented view of a supermassive black hole at the center of a quasar as it munches material in space.
How supermassive black holes form is even more elusive. Astrophysicists believe these invisible giants lurk at the center of ...
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The Hubble Space Telescope has peered deeper than ever before into the heart of the supermassive black hole-powered quasar 3C ...
Bogensberger et al; Image Processing: NASA/CXC/SAO/N. Wolk) However, arguably the most intriguing component of this distant ...
NASA's discovery of blanets, hypothetical black hole planets, challenges planetary formation theories and explores the possibility of life in extreme space environments.
A black hole is a dense, compact object whose gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it nothing ...
Astronomers have used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to gain a unique view of a vast black hole that is powering a glowing ...
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope uncovers striking details about quasar 3C 273, revealing an active black hole, satellite ...