X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They’ve certainly sparked and ...

In a study published March 11 in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters, two researchers applied quantum mechanics to ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...

However, in the entire history of astronomy, we have found just a bare handful of candidate sky objects that might—maybe—prove to be the elusive middle-sized black holes scientists would love ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

The observations provide a deeper look at how the black hole’s activity varies in brightness over time, said Tuan Do, associate professor in the physics and astronomy department and deputy ...

There is apparently a supermassive black hole in the Milky Way's largest satellite galaxy that is hurling hyper-fast stars into our home galaxy. This is what a research group led by Jiwon Jesse ...

Working off of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, the Australian physicist Ludwig Flamm suggested that a spacetime conduit could connect one side of a hole to the other. While black holes suck ...