Primordial black holes could rewrite our understanding of dark matter and the early universe. A record-breaking detection at ...

Across the sky, astronomers are stitching together vast samples of galaxies to understand how often supermassive black holes ...

"Our study provides a new direction to understand the whole evolutionary history of massive stars toward the formation of ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky Way vs ...

It is theoretically possible for a particularly massive star to collapse in on itself to form a black hole rather than ...

Solar storms are eruptions that release some of the energy stored in the sun's strong magnetic field. These can create ...

Mathematical quirks of our universe have led some cosmologists to wonder whether the cosmos was actually born in a black hole. Parallels in the physics of the universe and that of black holes have led ...

From planet-scorching stellar outbursts to cataclysms so powerful they shiver the very fabric of spacetime, these are some of the biggest blasts our cosmos has to offer ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stream of super-hot gas erupting from a nearby galaxy, driven by a powerful black hole ...

Black holes have long captured the imagination of both scientists and the general public. These exotic objects—once thought to be merely hypothetical—have also conceptually inspired countless artists ...

Pablo’s Galaxy existed about three billion years after the Big Bang and lies roughly 11 billion light-years from Earth.

Astronomers detected a black hole displaced nearly a kiloparsec from the center of a dwarf galaxy 230 million light-years away. Unlike most, it is actively feeding and producing radio jets, making it ...