X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope ...

Despite the bounce and subsequent expansion, nothing can leave the event horizon, so it expands into a new region of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) The black hole X-ray binary SLX 1746–331, located about 35,200 light years away, exhibited an unusual outburst in 2023 after 13 years of quiescence. During ...

NASA explains: The glowing object turned out to be a newly flaring black hole X-ray binary – discovered just a week earlier by Japan’s MAXI telescope – designated MAXI J0637-430. NASA’s ...

A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...

Now, though, astronomers have a better sense of where to hunt for any X-ray, radio, or visible-light signatures that are the telltale signs of an invisible black hole that's devouring everything ...

At the center of most large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, sits a supermassive black hole. Interstellar gas ...