"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The ...

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

Black holes are remarkable astronomical objects with gravity so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape them. The ...