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

"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 ...

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

On July 2, 2025, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) captured around three hours' worth of signals that appeared ...

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

Scientists have shot two black holes orbiting each other, offering the first ever definitive proof that these intergalactic ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

One of the most epic cosmic explosions ever seen may have been caused by a black hole infiltrating a star and destroying it ...

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