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The image is from the Chandra Deep Field-South. The full field covers an approximately circular region on the sky with an area about two-...

At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our sun. Image credit: NASA/CXC/Wis...

Black Hole Devouring Star NASA, S. Gezari (JHU), and J. Guillochon (UC Santa Cruz) Omnivorous Black Holes Like This One Are Pretty Much the ...

Johns Hopkins Astronomer Discovers How Black Holes Work -- CBS BALTIMORE (WJZ)– Johns Hopkins is again at the center of groundbreaking resea...

Image from a simulation when the inclination is 150 degrees with full 3D rendering. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Leicester) New ...

An artist’s impression of the jets emerging from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy PKS 0521-36. Credit: Dana Berry / STS...

Centaurus A Black Hole Jets This composite of visible, microwave (orange) and X-ray (blue) data reveals the jets and radio-emitting lobes em...

Merging X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory with microwave (orange) and visible images reveals the jets and radio-em...

Five-dimensional black strings evolve into black holes connected by black string filaments, in this computer simulation. Credit: Pretorius/L...

This is an artist's impression of the source HLX-1 (represented by the light blue object to the top left of the galactic bulge) in the p...

There may be a way to create black holes that do not evaporate over time (Image: Copyright Denver Museum of Nature and Science) From The New...

This artist's impression shows the magnetar in the very rich and young star cluster Westerlund 1. This remarkable cluster contains hundr...

A powerful jet from a supermassive black hole is blasting a nearby galaxy in the system known as 3C321 (Image: (NASA/CXC/CfA/D.Evans et al.;...

Artist's schematic impression of the distortion of spacetime by a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy. The black hole will...

This artist's conception illustrates one of the most primitive supermassive black holes known (central black dot) at the core of a young...

An artist's impression of the black hole pulling gas off its companion From The BBC: Astronomers have spied a star-sized black hole much...

Hubble Space Telescope images of two small galaxies colliding to form one From The Daily Mail: It is the ultimate dance routine but get too ...

From Discovery News: Astronomers presenting at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Washington D.C. on Jan. 4, have reported t...

An artist's representation of the burst of gravitational waves resulting from the collision of a colliding pair of black holes. (Credit:...

Baby black holes occur when two types of dead star merge (Image: Denver Museum of Nature & Science) From New Scientist: Baby black holes...