"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

Enjoy a free stargazing lecture followed by a Q&A panel and guided stargazing with telescopes (weather permitting). By ...

New findings from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope explain the Phoenix cluster’s mysterious starburst. Data confirm the ...

As some of the coldest air of winter moves into Northeast Florida — putting most of the area under a Freeze Warning — commuters in parts of Duval and Nassau counties should be on the lookout for black ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

Recent research using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Telescope reveals that black holes are not just passive consumers ...

Scientists have created the first-ever 3D maps of star-forming molecular clouds near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, ...

LISA is set to revolutionize our understanding of the gravitational universe and the interactions that make the entire cosmos ...

Was a powerful cosmic explosion seen by the Einstein Probe launched by a supermassive black hole snacking on a star, by a ...