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

From missing links, to primordial beginnings, to extremely powerful plasma jets that could be shaping our universe in ...

The first-ever photographed black hole emits an extraordinary gamma-ray flare, billions of times more energetic than visible ...

As black holes slowly vanish through Hawking radiation, their information may be preserved in subtle space-time ripples, a ...

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

New analysis techniques and decades-old research helped NASA scientists identify an unusual black hole in a distant galaxy.

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra ...

Typically, black holes are detected by a tell-tale glow of a swirling accretion disc. This disc forms near the black hole’s ...

In the center of NGC 5084, some 80 million light-years away, the supermassive black hole around which the whole galaxy ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

A research team has proposed a new method to reconstruct the "family tree" of black holes. Published in The Astrophysical ...