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 ...

Researchers say there are far more supermassive black holes out there than we previously suspected, and they're starting to ...

Small primordial black holes, born in the first moments of the Universe, might have reached supermassive sizes extremely ...

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

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

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

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

Priyamvada Natarajan has spent decades exploring some of the universe’s most persistent mysteries, particularly the unseen ...

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

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