the dormant black hole is 33 times more massive than the sun, making it the largest recorded stellar black hole in the Milky Way ...

Artistic illustration of the thick dust torus surrounding a supermassive black holes and its accretion disks. Credit: ESA / V. Beckmann (NASA-GSFC) By combining data from NASA’s IRAS and NuSTAR ...

By cooling and condensing the surrounding gas, black holes can sustain their growth indefinitely. Formed from the collapse of massive stars (8-10 times the mass of the Sun). The resulting mass is ...

It's no secret that black holes are some of the weirdest objects in space. Their disks are fluffy like cake, and diving into one is both interesting and terrifying. Now, a group of astronomers ...

Don't let the name fool you. Black holes might all have hearts of pure darkness, but many cloak themselves in rings of fire that blaze like little else in the cosmos. That doesn't mean all are ...

These galaxy clusters host supermassive black holes; these black holes are a million to billions of times heavier than the Sun. Such supermassive black holes generate emissions that, in turn ...

Black holes aren't just gorging themselves on whatever cosmic material is readily available—they're preparing those meals for themselves. Data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that ...

Black holes are gigantic objects that are sometimes billions of times larger than the Sun. They are regions where the fabric of spacetime is so deformed by concentrated mass that, beyond their ...

A massive 500,000-mile-wide (800,000-kilometer) coronal hole in the sun's atmosphere is unleashing a stream of fast-moving solar wind toward Earth, potentially supercharging auroras on Jan.

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ...