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

Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...