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J. Robert Oppenheimer had already made a foray into the topic of stellar collapse, which convinced him of the inevitability of black holes. Together with his student George Volkoff, he was able to significantly extend Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar’s result. Then, with Hartland Snyder, Oppenheimer provided a remarkably accurate mathematical description of the…

Tapping into cosmic X-rays, NASA's IXPE satellite has identified a supermassive black hole blasting its energetic jets straight toward Earth. Don't worry, though, this blazar is tucked away deep in space.

NASA's new detector, known as ComPair, is slated to fly next month. The goal is to catch high-energy, invisible beams stemming from things like star explosions, supermassive black holes and gamma-ray bursts.

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The name Oppenheimer will always be synonymous with the power and destruction of the atomic bomb, but the physicist also played an essential role in the study of black holes.

"Star Trek" reinvented the long-running franchise, but its grasp of black holes and the properties of its fictional red matter don't track.

Nottingham University researchers are simulating black holes with a tiny vortex inside a bell jar of superfluid helium

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered a feeding supermassive black hole from when the universe was less than 600 million years old.

Astronomers have discovered the most distant black hole yet using NASA's Webb Space Telescope

Only an extreme environment could hide the collision of two stellar-mass black holes — and feeding supermassive black holes could provide such cover.

The observation that the universe appears to run slower in the past was made by scrutinizing the light emitted by gigantic quasars.