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

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Supermassive black holes are one of the universe’s greatest mysteries, however scientists continue to chip away at their ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions ...

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable insights for particle physics ...

A new quantum recipe for black holes could be the first step toward a theory of "quantum gravity", the "holy grail" of ...

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

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

Cosmic radiation occasionally contains enormous amounts of energy, but we don’t know why or where this radiation comes from.

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...