They say the villain can make or break a story, which certainly holds true in the comic book industry. A superhero can only ...

Scientists have discovered key conditions needed for a stellar black hole to create plasma jets. Their findings show that when superheated gas material experiences a rapid shrinkage towards the black ...

The energy source behind both quasars and microquasars is the spin of the black hole itself. As they gradually give up this ...

Prior to the current finding, all black holes that scientists have ever identified have been spotted with a companion star.

Astronomers think there could be as many as 100 million black holes in our galaxy, most with a similar mass to our Sun, but ...

Intriguingly, ultralight dark matter might be able to turn into photons (light) — and it's through this process that the ...

Something unexpected has come to life in the great darkness of space. In a galaxy 300 million light-years away from Earth, a ...

Webb detected rare neon gas in M83. This may signal a hidden black hole, challenging the idea that the galaxy has only ...

An astonishing discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope may rewrite our understanding of the Universe’s early years. A ...

Astronomers have long struggled with a troubling puzzle: a significant portion of normal matter in the universe appeared to ...

One of the most spectacular galaxies in Earth's sky is the subject of a new image release to help celebrate 35 years of ...

Take a journey to 89 million light-years away from Earth to the NGC 7727 galaxy. It harbors the closest pair of supermassive ...