New data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory provides insights into a fascinating aspect of black holes which is their ability to self-sustain.

Modern astronomical observatories send us an enormous amount of data, which is generally examined and shared in the form of ...

Binary black holes, systems consisting of two black holes in close orbit around each other, synchronize their spins before ...

"This discovery challenges the common belief that black holes formed in star clusters always have randomly distributed spins." ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently made observations about galaxy clusters that will help shape our ...

The black holes rip the stars apart and consume their stellar debris — becoming more massive, Northwestern explained. This increases their gravitational pull and draws them together as they orbit..

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of ...

The Martz Observatory will host a screening with speaker Margaret Verrico at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 19. Verrico’s talk will be shown on the big screen at the Martz-Kohl Observatory and is available ...

Traditional black holes, as predicted by Albert Einstein’s theory of General Relativity, contain what are known as ...

Kokoro Hosogi, a physics student at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), has achieved a rare honor for an ...