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

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding supermassive black hole.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), launched in 2022, continues to reshape how we view the cosmos. Designed to look deeper into space and further back in time than any previous instrument, it has ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what scientists ...

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

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

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

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

An artist's concept of a star's remnants forming a disk around a black hole. Illustration: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole ...

Illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole. NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI) Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that ...

Astronomers have discovered a black hole emitting energy in jets longer than the width of 140 Milky Way galaxies.