Astronomers have decoded the hidden past of a distant red giant star by listening to tiny vibrations in its light, revealing ...

Scientists are developing new methods to turn black hole images into time-resolved 3D movies, revealing how plasma, jets, and gravity behave near event horizons ...

Galaxy mergers are not uncommon throughout the Universe; in fact, they're thought to be one of the major mechanisms whereby ...

APM 08279-5255 is a massive black hole (quasar) that contains about 140 trillion times the amount in all of Earth’s oceans ...

Three merging galaxies host three active black holes, offering rare insight into galaxy and black hole growth.

Black holes are dark, matter-devouring balls of gravity. Most of them are so far away that we don't need to worry about them.

Physicists have started to treat a once-fringe idea with surprising seriousness: that our entire observable universe might be ...

Astronomers have found three supermassive black holes on a collision course in a rare cosmic event, situated nearly 1.2 ...

A supermassive black hole residing within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) - a satellite galaxy - is on a collision course ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified a rare trio of merging galaxies, known as J1218/1219+1035, which is located approximately 1.2 billion light-years from Earth. This unique ...

Astronomers have identified a massive cloud of water vapor surrounding a distant quasar, marking the largest single reservoir ...