Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion light-years away.

M87, a prominent galaxy in the Virgo cluster, gained fame after the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) revealed the first image of ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

Miller contributed his neutron star merger simulations to The Well, one of the two datasets released by Polymathic AI. This dataset includes numerical simulations of complex phenomena, such as ...

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Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole in the early universe that seems to be “napping” after a feast. This black ...

Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery: a binary star orbiting perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*. This stellar pair defies ...

Scientists have long observed black holes existing as part of binary systems, where a black hole pairs with a nearby object ...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...