An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

A new theoretical study by University of Virginia astrophysicist Jonathan Tan, a research professor with the College and ...

Astronomers using the James Webb telescope have zoomed in on a 'Little Red Dot' that existed just 500 million years after the ...

At 36 billion solar masses, the newly discovered black hole is so massive that it seems to break some theories of the ...

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A nanoship is on its way to a black hole. An astrophysicist wants to send a nanoship (a tiny spacecraft) directly to a black ...

Astronomers have used a new method to weigh the ultramassive black hole. They hope this will help them better understand how ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...

Scientists propose a laser-driven nanocraft to reach a black hole in decades, testing relativity and probing extreme gravity.

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.