In OJ 287, located some 3.5 billion light-years away, the intricate, extreme interplay between the two central supermassive ...

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It was spotted in the spiral galaxy NGC 3627, around 31 million light-years from our solar system in the constellation Leo.

There could be a 90 percent chance that in the next decade, astronomers will spot a deep space explosion that confirms several long-standing theories about black holes – and which releases a complete ...

Small black holes with the mass of a pyramid may exist within the solar system, and they could be exploding every decade, according to a new study by physicists at the University of Massachusetts ...

Black holes like the one shown in this illustration can grow astonishingly massive by feeding on immense amounts of matter. But just how big can they get? In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a ...

Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community and surrounding areas to enjoy a free show in its Detwiler Planetarium on ...

"Its special properties make the galaxy an ideal candidate for further research into merging black holes and the associated gravitational waves." A beam of particles speeding away from the vicinity of ...

Most supermassive black holes lurk in the nuclei of galaxies, surrounded by stars and glowing with haloes of superhot matter, which swirls inward until it eventually vanishes into a gravitational ...

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics ...

The black hole at the Milky Way’s heart neither slumbers nor sleeps. Instead, the ring of plasma surrounding it flickers constantly, punctuated by superbright flares, observations show. Astronomers ...

Dark matter has eluded us for many decades but we may be able to discover more now. Dark matter has eluded us for many decades. Even our most advanced particle colliders and sophisticated underground ...