New details have been discovered about M87*, the first black hole ever photographed, revealing its plasma, its brightness and ...

Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...

NEW HAVEN, CT – Yale astrophysicist Priyamvada Natarajan has been awarded the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics in recognition of her groundbreaking research in black holes and dark ...

Black holes are notorious for gobbling up, well, everything. They're icons of destruction, ruthless voids, ambivalent abysses ...

In a groundbreaking follow-up to their 2019 reveal of the first black hole image, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) team has ...

By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR telescopes, scientists have uncovered more hidden supermassive black holes than earlier estimates suggested. Their findings indicate that over a third of ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never time to cover all the interesting scientific stories each month. In the past, ...

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

"This is the first solid evidence that helical magnetic fields can explain astrophysical jets at different scales." ...

An avid reader, her goal was simple – to inspire young, budding astronomers who share the same curiosity as she did ...

The University of California San Diego is positioning itself as a leader in astronomical research as its new Department of ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.