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

Apples-to-apples comparisons in the distant universe are hard to come by. Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years ...

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 ...

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 ...

Incredible photo shows supermassive black hole blowing a jet of matter into interstellar space Black holes can destroy planets — but they can also lead us to thriving alien worlds. Here's how.

Each year after the draft has come and gone, the Philadelphia Eagles typically sign a few veteran players to plug unfilled holes on their depth chart, sometimes immediately, and sometimes a little ...

Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, A. Adamo (Stockholm University) and the FEAST JWST team Scientists have long believed that monster-sized supermassive black holes lurk at the heart of all large galaxies.

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 ...

Unlike a planet or star, black holes don't have surfaces. Instead, they have a boundary called an "event horizon," or a point of no return. If anything swoops too close, it will fall in ...