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

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

An explanation of what white wholes are and why we have not yet seen them Theoretically, white holes are areas of space that behave like black holes in reverse. A white hole would expel matter and ...

A black hole infamous for strange features has once again baffled astronomers, this time with rapid X-ray flashes. What could they be?

Twin jets erupt from a supermassive black hole in Draco, offering new insights into black hole activity and evolution.

In the above image, the black holes are the bright white spots in the center of the ... and may help solve even more mysteries about space. In addition, the model helps researchers better ...

white-hot plasma—suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy. Members of the MIT team have now caught the same ...

By slowly losing its outermost material to the supermassive black hole in a process called mass transfer, a white dwarf could ... ESA’s Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) launches in ...

Using the XMM-Newton X-ray telescope, astronomers have witnessed a supermassive black hole ... white dwarf, the researchers theorize that it could be detected using ripples in space and time ...

white-hot plasma -- suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy. Members of the MIT team have now caught the same ...

white-hot plasma — suddenly disappeared, before reassembling months later. The brief though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy. Members of the MIT team have now caught the same ...

The observations made using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton ... The researchers estimated that the white dwarf is orbiting the black hole at about 5% the distance that separates Earth ...