And, scientists with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have detected what they like to call a ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

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

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been unwaveringly focused on our universe. With its unprecedented power to detect and ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have observed black holes causing the most powerful space explosions ever recorded, revealing previously hidden black holes.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes because if their components warm and expand it can mean that the shape of ...

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...