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

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

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

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Astronomers detect 10 billion-year-old radio waves from a distant galaxy cluster SpARCS1049, revealing a mini-halo that ...

A new generation of black hole research is unfolding thanks to artificial intelligence, massive simulations, and cutting-edge ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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

A cloud of high-energy particles surrounding a distant galaxy cluster offers a rare glimpse into the forces shaping the early ...