Black holes come in a range of sizes. Stellar mass black holes form from the collapse of massive stars, typically weighing ...

Black holes are fundamental to the structure of galaxies and critical in our understanding of gravity, space, and time. A ...

We all know that black holes can devour stars, rip them apart and consume their remnants. But that only happens if a star ...

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

The researchers confirmed that two enormous stars, each more than 20 times the mass of the sun, are growing inside ...

Despite residing in one of the galaxy's most extreme star-forming environments — just 200 light-years from the supermassive ...

Simulations of highly magnetized stars that explode and collapse into black holes show that they transfer their magnetic fields to the disk of swirling matter that forms around the new black hole.

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Together, an international team of scientists observed the star-forming ring of gas and dust known as the Central Molecular ...

The story begins with a system known as GRO J1655-40. It’s a binary system containing a black hole of about seven solar ...

Webb first observed the region called Sagittarius C in 2023. Now researchers are now using those observations to study star formation in the wider area around the center of the Milky Way, known as the ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as ... By ejecting material from the galaxy, the winds inhibit star formation. Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket ...