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

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

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

What’s really inside a black hole? Long considered one of the greatest cosmic mysteries, black holes were first predicted in 1916 through Einstein’s theory of relativity. Yet it wasn’t until the 1960s ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

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

Astronomers confirm ‘lite intermediate’ black holes, too large for ordinary stars, revealing clues about early stellar ...

Astronomers have discovered powerful X-ray jets from two ancient supermassive black holes being illuminated by the afterglow of the Big Bang.