Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have revealed that auroras on Jupiter are hundreds of times brighter ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

Astrophysicist Jeremy Darling from the University of Colorado Boulder is on a quest to find a new way of measuring the ...

Astronomers have detected a rare black hole outside a galaxy’s core devouring a star in the first known offset tidal ...

Astronomers have for the first time witnessed a supermassive black hole eat a star “outside” the core of its host galaxy in a ...

The Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, is 26,000 light-years away from us. It is four million times ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — New research suggests black holes may transition into 'white holes', ejecting matter and potentially even time back into the universe, defying our ... Mysterious Phenomenon at ...

Stars burn out, matter decays, black holes evaporate, and eventually nothing is left but a few stray particles of light diffusing away the waste heat of all creation. This scenario is sometimes ...

First Laboratory "Black Hole Bomb" Researchers at the University of Southampton, led by Hendrik Ulbricht and including Marion Cromb, have finally achieved what Zel’dovich envisioned.In a new ...

Now, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers may have cracked this puzzle, finding the first evidence of a supermassive black hole at the heart of M83, also known as NGC 5236, a ...