Astronomers have discovered the longest gamma-ray burst ever recorded, revealing that a black hole literally consumed a star ...

Meghie Rodrigues talks to Brazilian astronomer Thaisa Storchi Bergmann about curiosity, black holes and current challenges in ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

The giant elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87), in the constellation Virgo, possesses near its center a supermassive black hole ...

A gamma ray glow at our galaxy’s center has puzzled scientists for almost two decades. New computer simulations back the theory that dark matter could be the source.

By zeroing in on the infrared scale, researchers offer details of the black hole jet stream in faraway galaxy M87.

Astronomers have discovered that a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Circinus galaxy is feeding through two ...

Recent astronomical observations have unveiled unexpected patterns in the spins of galaxies throughout the universe, leaving ...

When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began operations, one of its earliest surveys was of galaxies that existed during ...

After Christmas dinner in 2021, our family was glued to the television, watching the nail-biting launch of NASA's US$10 ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...