Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

New research reveals how supermassive black holes halt star formation, shedding light on galaxy evolution in the early ...

But the Webb may have just identified a solution to the dilemma as well. It has spotted a black hole that appears to have ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

That a black hole appears to have a gravitational hold ... a phase occurring at the end of a star’s life. They believe that the outerstar is about 4 billion years old, based on this transition.

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

An artist's conception of the distant black hole LID-568. Credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / J. da Silva / M. Zamani The powerful James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a phenomenon once thought ...

Black holes are thought to form from the violent explosion ... process of becoming a red giant—a phase that occurs at the end of a star's life. Based on this stellar transition, the team ...