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

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

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

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

The search for dark matter requires all the best models, theories, and ideas we can throw at it. A new paper by Julia Monika ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

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

NASA’s James Webb Telescope captures the "Cosmic Owl," a rare galactic formation resembling an owl’s face. See stunning images.