The newly confirmed black hole stood out only because it briefly passed in front of a distant, unrelated star—an event that magnified and shifted the background star’s light just enough to ...

NASA has released three new pieces of cosmic sound that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: ...

Researchers have discovered that ultra-fast wind surrounding a supermassive black hole is not smooth and continuous as ...

With data from space ... sounds. Background stars were converted to bell sounds. At WR124's centre, a burning core could one day blow up as a supernova. It may collapse into a black hole afterwards.

and especially how the black holes at their centers are growing." Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer back in time over 10 billion years, observing an early era in ...