NASA's discovery of blanets, hypothetical black hole planets, challenges planetary formation theories and explores the possibility of life in extreme space environments.

NASA's scientists have been baffled by the discovery of a mysterious object in the plasma plume of a distant supermassive ...

This campaign of observations used a coronagraph, a system that creates little eclipses by blocking the light of stars. In ...

Using the deepest X-ray image ever made with Chandra of Centaurus A, astronomers have found an unusual mark from the giant black hole's powerful jet striking an unidentified object in its path.

One of the strangest galaxies in the neighborhood of the Milky Way has just presented astronomers with a fascinating mystery.

Most galaxies are thought to play host to black holes. At the center of Centaurus A, a galaxy 12 million light years away, a jet is being fired out into space. Images that have been captured by NASA’s ...

A new image by the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals an unidentified celestial object, dubbed C4, getting blasted by a jet of ...

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

NGC 1068 is a well-known, relatively nearby, bright galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center. Despite its status ...

A black hole is a region in space where gravity is so strong that nothing—not even light—can escape from it. At the center of ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have made a fascinating discovery in a galaxy called Centaurus A (Cen A), located about 12 million light-years from Earth. A jet of high-energy ...

We only discovered space ORCs four years ago, and still don’t know what they are, but have learned their apparent uniformity ...