The earth doesn’t rotate exactly on schedule. Scientists believe that today is going to be around a millisecond short of a ...

Initial study showed that the LRDs are active galactic nuclei (AGN) with supermassive black holes (SMBH) in their centers.

"It appears that there is a preferred physical environment in which stars form when they evolve within these clouds." ...

This is the first confirmed case of a star that survived an encounter with a supermassive black hole and came back for more.

Hidden in the ‘Infinity Galaxy,’ a black hole floats in space where none should exist, upending old ideas about black hole birth.

New supercomputer simulations suggest the Milky Way could be surrounded by dozens more faint, undetected satellite ...

Quasars were a mystery when first discovered in the early 1960s. They are extremely distant, starlike objects that emit enormous amounts of energy. Years later, astronomers understood that quasars are ...

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

Jets are cosmic phenomena that could happen in a couple of ways. Now, researchers have found one larger than the Milky Way, ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology: the Hubble tension. This long-standing discrepancy ...

A study involving astronomers from around the world has discovered the rare massive galaxies, known as Giant Radio Galaxies, the first of which was discovered 30 years ago. These massive cosmic ...

By studying what makes the Milky Way unique, astronomers are hoping to understand our galaxy’s past and unravel the mystery of dark matter.