A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, formed from collapsed massive stars. Black holes form when massive stars collapse under their ...

Nov. 13, 2024 — Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of ...

Detecting hidden black holes is tough. Thick gas and dust obscure light, making these cosmic giants invisible to many telescopes. NASA’s study brings new techniques to uncover them. NASA’s ...

Now, though, NASA has actually watched a black hole eat a star. To get a good view of the event, NASA used multiple of its space telescopes to observe the black hole as it ate the star.

The torus can obscure light that’s generated by material falling into the black hole. Observations by NASA telescopes have helped scientists identify more of these hidden black holes. NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

The Hubble Telescope captured a supermassive black hole creating expanding gas bubbles in the galaxy SDSS J1354+1327, 900 million light-years away. HE0435-1223, seen at the centre of this image, is ...

An effort to find some of the biggest, most active black holes in the universe provides a better estimate for the ratio of hidden to unhidden behemoths. Multiple NASA telescopes recently helped ...

"These observations provide a more complete picture of the black hole's environment and its dynamics." It may have been the first black hole imaged by humanity, but the eating habits of the ...

A large international team of scientists observed a rare event in real time: a dramatic increase in radio emission ... The galaxy harbors a central black hole weighing about 1.4 million solar masses ...