While sifting out signatures of supernova remnants, a high-schooler stumbled upon the afterglow of a dormant black hole. It ...

A stunning new discovery has revealed a massive spiral galaxy, located nearly 1 billion light-years away, that is doing ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

The spiral galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is located nearly 1 billion light-years away from Earth, and measures about three ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...

"Unlike any objects we know, these filaments really surprised us. Since then, we have been pondering what they are." ...

A surprising new study from Dartmouth and the University of Exeter researchers shows that when the supermassive black holes at the center of most large galaxies—including the Milky Way—consume ...

If Andrea Ghez had listened to her critics, one of the galaxy’s greatest mysteries might yet remain unsolved. The UCLA astronomer won the 2020 Nobel Prize in physics for proving the existence of a ...

New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and ...

Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in July 2023 with assistance from NASA, Euclid has been observing the cosmos since ...

Often seen as destructive, supermassive black holes could help sustain life under specific conditions, scientists have found.