Astronomers have scoured decades-old data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, finding bright, lumpy features dotting a jet of energy spit out by a nearby black hole. Puzzlingly, the "knots ...

Credit: SXS (Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes) Project Black hole mergers are beautiful — and some of the most violent events in the cosmos. Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with ...

Astronomers have spotted a black hole ... amounts of X-rays. Thanks to the telescope's highly sensitive near-infrared spectrograph, the team made an unexpected discovery: a black hole gorging ...

But most of the early supermassive black holes spotted using the Webb are feeding at roughly 20 percent of the Eddington limit, based on their lack of X-ray emissions. This either means that they ...

Now, researchers using NASA's Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have gathered data about 12 known black holes to determine the structural properties of accretion disks around different ...

An artist's rendition of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni. This is the first time a black hole triple has been discovered. An artist's rendition of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni.

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 the universe’s shadowy figures, with many millions of them roaming unseen in our galaxy alone. These cosmic heavyweights famously destroy anything that wanders too close ...

An X-ray binary system composed of a black hole and a star in the process of being consumed turns out to have a third member circling. Unless some unlikely scenarios occurred, the existence of ...

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