There's a universe full of black holes out there, spinning merrily away—some fast, others more slowly. A recent survey of ...

Strange x-ray pulses hint at a surprisingly long-lived white dwarf orbiting precariously close to a supermassive black hole ...

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves, first proposed by Albert Einstein 110 ...

"If our eyes were able to detect X-rays, the sky would be full of dots. And every single one of those dots would be an ...

The black hole, with an official name of 1ES 1927+654, is located in the distant constellation Draco. Astronomers have been monitoring the black hole for years, primarily since 2018 when the mass ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole, according to preliminary research Sara Hashemi Correspondent An artist’s concept of a white dwarf ...

The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...

Of all the unanswered questions in modern science, perhaps the most talked about is whether we are alone in the universe. A ...

Strange vibrations emanating from a supermassive black hole appear to be growing more frequent and they could be caused by a white dwarf star orbiting perilously close to its event horizon.

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Astronomers have discovered an unexpected reservoir of water circling a black hole in ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study ...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.