NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential ...

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

Despite their name, black holes are often surrounded by bright, radiating whirlpools of matter known as accretion disks — and ...

our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, shows swirling magnetic fields that may hint at the presence of an unseen jet ...

And this water isn’t just sitting there; it’s swirling around the black hole, creating a sort of cosmic steam bath. And there ...

Two giant black holes causing strange flashes of light about one billion light years away from Earth have been detected by ...

When scientists published the first photo of a black hole in 2019, the image looked more like a smudge than a detailed snapshot. But a new photo released Wednesday offers a sharper view of the ...

Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel galaxy, is one of the most prominent spiral galaxies in the night sky. It's ...

The universe is full of black holes. In the past decade, scientists have detected the signals of their collisions and taken images of the light from the gas swirling around them—and this has helped us ...

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential to a black ...

Today we know the universe is full of black holes. In the past decade, University of Chicago scientists have helped us hear the echoes of their collisions and take images of the light swirling around ...