Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...
A team of computational astrophysicists has developed a simulation that explains the behavior of matter around black holes.
A detailed suite of simulations conducted by astrophysicists at the Flatiron Institute and their collaborators showed that magnetic fields can produce black holes with masses that were previously ...
What could force a supermassive black hole (SMBH) out of its host galaxy? They can have hundreds of millions, even billions ...
For years, telescopes have been finding extremely energetic blue stellar explosions that could not be explained until now.
A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 sparks ultra-fast winds, offering new clues about ...
NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...
A flaring black hole whips up ultra-fast winds of more than 37,000 miles per SECOND, reveals new research. X-ray space ...
Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ...
The research also suggests that these massive stars transformed directly into black holes at the end of their lives without ...
The phenomenon, known as luminous fast blue optical transients or LFBOTs, comes in the form of short, bright flashes of light ...