When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. New calculations suggest that the universe's most enduring celestial objects, such as white dwarf ...

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...

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When people think of black holes, they imagine something dramatic: a star exploding in space, collapsing in on itself, and forming a cosmic monster that eats everything around it. But what if black ...

The Milky Way has millions of small black holes and one giant supermassive black hole at its center. But does the galaxy have any medium-sized black holes? New research suggests the answer is yes: ...

A strange and violent fate awaits a white dwarf star that wanders too close to a moderately massive black hole. According to a new study, the black hole’s gravitational pull on the white dwarf would ...

For the first time, NASA Chandra X-ray telescope has been used to discover a pair of black holes in dwarf galaxies that are on a collision course. The Chandra team explains. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart ...

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A wandering black hole in a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away, offset from the center and launching jets, offers clues to black hole growth beyond nuclei. (Nanowerk News) Traditionally, black ...

Most smaller galaxies may not have supermassive black holes in their centers, according to a recent study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This contrasts with the common idea that nearly every ...

"Fortunately, it still takes a very long time." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the story of our cosmos moves forward, stars ...