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

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

Scientists have observed a new type of black hole that is too heavy to have been born from a star but still too slim to … The ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

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

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

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

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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

This research could represent the first documented case of paracetamol production from plastic waste using E. coli bacteria.

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

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