Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

Black holes can actively regulate the material they consume, using powerful jets of gas blasted into space, according to a ...

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A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...

Supermassive black holes are seen as sources of wanton cosmic destruction, but there may be more to their powerful influence ...

A neutron star’s density is mind-boggling. These stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons packed together in a tiny radius. Just a teaspoonful of this material would weigh over a trillion ...

Space experts have uncovered a massive swarm of new supermassive black holes that could blow theories about galaxies wide open. A team of scientists using data from two NASA telescopes revealed ...

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Many mysteries in the universe still confound physicists and astronomers. The idea of white holes, which are hypothetical equivalents of black holes, is one of the most puzzling notions in ...

Jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause gas to cool and fall toward that cosmic titan in a cosmic feeding process.