But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

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

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 .

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

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

HPP previews Black Hole Havoc, a arcade adventure from Cosmic Bros. Despite initial worries about crank control, this is a ...

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

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

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