"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 ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its colossal gravity shreds them to pieces. The resulting string of matter ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

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 ...

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

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 ...

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