Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster's black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound ...

A microquasar belonging to our Milky Way galaxy has set records by generating cosmic rays with energy levels never before ...

A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra ...

A groundbreaking simulation reveals how neutron star mergers forge black holes, generate gamma-ray bursts, and scatter gold ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have instead ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Astronomers have discovered an ancient black hole shooting an extremely powerful jet that carries light from the time of the Big Bang. The black hole formed just 3 billion years after the universe was ...

Across 11.6 billion light-years, the X-ray eyes of NASA’s Chandra Observatory have caught a super-massive black hole blasting a jet so huge it could span three Milky Ways. Stranger still, the beam ...

The colossal black hole lurking at the center of the Milky Way galaxy is spinning almost as fast as its maximum rotation rate. That's just one thing astrophysicists have discovered after developing ...

There are objects in our universe so dense that not even light escapes through them. These oddities, known as supermassive black holes, can weigh billions of times more than our sun. Scientists have ...

Could Mysterious Black Hole Burps Rewrite Physics?