In this clip, American astrobiologist Caleb Scharf tells presenter Bridget Kendall about supermassive black holes and argues ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

The concept of two black holes orbiting one another has been theorized for many years, but recent satellite photography may ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

Supermassive black holes stand out for their fundamental role in the evolution of galaxies and the history of the universe.

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Astronomers have achieved the first radio image of a supermassive black hole pair, using the retired Russian RadioAstron ...