But the supermassive black hole lurking at the core of NGC 3783 is 30 million times the mass of our humble sun, and the ...

An international team of astronomers, led by SRON, has observed a sudden outburst of matter near the supermassive black hole ...

NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Galaxy NGC 3783 is gorgeous, with well-defined spiral arms that make it almost the platonic ideal of spiral galaxies. That ...

A sudden X-ray flare from a supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 3783 triggered ultra-fast winds racing outward at a fifth the speed of light—an event never witnessed before. Using XMM-Newton and ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

A remarkably clean gravitational-wave detection has confirmed long-standing predictions about black holes, including ...

Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...

How confusing inevitability with reality built decades of paradox. What if general relativity never actually tells us that ...

Supersonic shock waves are cone-shaped disturbances that result from an object moving faster than the speed of sound. If you were unlucky enough to be struck by a primordial black hole, its shock ...

Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...