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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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