"The biggest surprise of all was that the black hole was not located inside either of the two nuclei but in the middle. We asked ourselves: How can we make sense of this?" ...

Discoveries keep pouring out of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Researchers observed an unusual cluster, which they ...

Yale astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and a team of researchers have discovered an object in space they call the "Infinity" ...

Astronomers using JWST and other telescopes found a supermassive black hole floating between two colliding galaxies — not in ...

Astronomers have detected the signal of a colossal black hole in deep space that likely formed when two already-large black ...

But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Gravitational waves spotted by LIGO reveal two black holes, 140 and 100 times the mass of the sun, merged to become a 225 solar mass behemoth.

A new method to analyze gravitational-wave data could transform how we study some of the universe's most extreme events—black ...

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