The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

NASA compares the universe's biggest black holes with "each other and to our solar system," in this Goddard Space Flight Center animation. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image L ...

Black holes may seem like interstellar enigmas, but they hold some key lessons on how to move through the universe. Accessibility links. ... there's just a lot of moving parts.

Using a neural network trained with simulations of supermassive black holes, astronomers have found that the one at the ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Primordial black holes could explain dark matter, galaxy growth and more. ... the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the darkest parts of the universe. By David Keyton, ...

What lies at the heart of a black hole has puzzled physicists for decades. Now, a team led by physicist Enrico Rinaldi has taken a bold approach to the mystery. By using quantum computing and ...

An image of the shadow of the supermassive black hole M87 (inset) and a powerful jet of matter and energy being projected away from it. R.-S. Lu (SHAO) and E. Ros (MPIfR), S.Dagnello (NRAO/AUI/NSF) ...

Black holes are born from the idea of an infinite amount of mass concentrated in an infinitesimally small space, ... "Therefore, different parts of the universe have different rates of expansion.

Using machine learning to analyse data from the Event Horizon Telescope, researchers found the black hole at the centre of ...