Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of ...

It's not as flashy as NASA's simulation where you can dive into a black hole, but Caltech's does call into question theories that have existed for 50 years. The new information involves black hole ...

A supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust as seen in infrared light (top left), visible light (top right), and low- and high-energy X-rays (bottom left, right). Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Marcus Chown’s “A Crack in Everything” is a journey through space and time with the people studying one of the most enigmatic ...

NASA has shared audio captured from inside a black hole - and it sounds like something ripped straight out of a science-fiction movie. When you think about it, humanity truly lucked out developing ...

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected features never seen before using data from NASA missions and other facilities.

The torus can obscure light that’s generated by material falling into the black hole. Observations by NASA telescopes have helped scientists identify more of these hidden black holes. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

Strange tilted black hole found in galaxy NGC 5084 X-ray plumes point to galaxy collision theory Hubble and Chandra reveal black hole’s odd alignment ...

In December 2022, less than six months after commencing science operations, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope revealed something never seen ... They found that a large fraction of the LRDs in their ...