Was the Big Bang really the beginning of the universe, or are we 'bouncing' between periods of expansion and contraction? A ...

Across the cosmos, many stars can be found in pairs, gracefully circling one another. Yet one of the most dramatic pairings ...

A new simulation by researchers shows how a neutron star violently cracks seconds before vanishing into a black hole.

Merging neutron stars are excellent targets for multi-messenger astronomy. This modern and still very young method of ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

In a major leap forward, scientists, using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), have captured the sharpest images yet of ...

Astronomers have observed the most massive and oldest black hole jet ever, emanating from quasar J1601+3102. Stretching over ...

Astronomers have spotted an apparent supermassive black hole snacking on a star 600 million light-years away, wandering through a galaxy with an even larger black hole at its core.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a tightly packed cluster of supermassive black holes dating back 10.8 ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and fascinating objects in the universe, known for their immense gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, can escape. But among them, there are ...

Read A disk of hot gas swirls around a black hole in this illustration. Some of the gas came from a star that was pulled ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place. Rather than sitting dead center in its galaxy like most supermassive black ...