Gamma rays are the highest-energy form of electromagnetic radiation, billions of times more energetic than visible light.

M87 was the first black hole to be imaged, and now it's revealing details of how some elementary particles are accelerated by ...

The idea of BHEX is to use a space-based telescope to collect even more detailed information from black holes, as there is ...

NASA's X-ray space telescope Chandra spotted the cosmic collision from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy Centaurus A.

M87, located just under 55 million light-years from the Milky Way, was chosen for humanity's first image of the shadow of a ...

Astronomers suspect that in the first second after the universe formed, the very first black holes also formed. These tiny ...

TBIRD, a laser communications system developed by Lincoln Laboratory, transmits data at unprecedented speeds, enabling ...

Could a decades-long debate about the mysterious movements of stars in Omega Centauri, the largest star cluster in the Milky ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that ...

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the ...