"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied." ...

Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

A team of scientists including the University of Toronto's Bart Ripperda and Braden Gail - assistant professor and graduate student, respectively, at ...

Discover how researchers found a bizarre black hole feeding at an exceptional rate, challenging theories on black hole growth ...

Black Hole Debate Settled? Stellar-Mass Black Holes Found at the Heart of the Milky Way's Largest Star ... 2024 — Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that ...

This image of Mars taken by NASA shows a Martian crater in the shape of a heart. The University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium will present “Hearts in the Sky,” a Valentine’s Day program at ...

Adam Leroy, a professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Henry Draper Medal.

Since it’s Christmas Day launch in 2021, the James Webb Space telescope has provided those of us back on Earth with some of ...

According to NASA, "there are hundreds of them"—massive black holes roaming space. It is now emerging and reshaping the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...