NASA has visualized the cataclysm, which is thought to have caused a mysterious eruption of gamma rays captured by telescopes ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light.

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

Astronomers watched as a black hole whipped up cosmic winds that shot material into space at 37,280 miles per second (60,000 ...

Researchers have created a fully relativistic model showing that gravitational waves might carry hidden clues about dark ...

Approaching a black hole unleashes extreme tidal forces, stretching and tearing apart matter, including planets like Earth, a ...

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

In the end, the Universe becomes a place where gravity and quantum physics slowly turn all mass into faint streams of particles.

Galaxy NGC 3783 is gorgeous, with well-defined spiral arms that make it almost the platonic ideal of spiral galaxies. That ...

A Rutgers astrophysicist is helping to solve a cosmic puzzle that has astronomers scratching their heads. The mystery centers ...

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have ...

The European Space Agency said that the black hole inside the spiral galaxy NGC 3783 has the mass of 30 million suns.