International teams of astronomers monitoring a supermassive black hole in the heart of a distant galaxy have detected ...

The observations revealed features never before seen in real time around a supermassive black hole. Among them was the launch ...

"This tells us that objects like white dwarfs may be able to live very close to an event horizon for a relatively extended period of time." ...

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

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In this artist’s concept, matter is stripped from a white dwarf (sphere at lower right) orbiting within the innermost accretion disk surrounding 1ES 1927+654’s supermassive black hole. Astronomers ...

From new perspectives on the early universe to illuminating the extreme environment near a black hole, discoveries from NASA ...

Dubbed LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna), it will see Teledyne Space Imaging working with Thales Alenia Space on optical electronics. It is led by the European Space Agency, in partnership ...