NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration.

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

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

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event, where a massive star in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) has transformed directly into a black hole, without the usual supernova explosion. The phenomenon ...

Stars have a life and death-cycle. Those that are about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the ...

The outward force from its fusion can no longer counteract the star's powerful gravity, and the star collapses in on itself.