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 ...

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

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

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

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, ...

Scientists have created a new version of a historic black hole image that was first unveiled back in 2019. ... "What we really do is we learn the correlations between different parts of the image.

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 ...

Black holes don’t gulp up everything at once, ... and astrophysicists turned their attention to other parts of the sky. Yet, three years later, the same star suddenly lit up again.