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

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

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

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 ...

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

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

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

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

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

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

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...