Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the universe. It's also ...

Primordial black holes are the earliest black holes thought to exist, and they vanished almost as fast as they came into ...

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

Christopher Nolan's 2014 sci-fi movie gets analyzed by a real astrophysicist, who sings the movie's praises despite ...

A high school student in New York has stumbled onto a massive discovery — a cosmic light echo possibly spanning twice the ...

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...