Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

Black holes are fascinating objects. They're unimaginably dense: If Earth was (hypothetically) crushed into a black hole, it ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers continue to stress the value of X-ray science as NASA's flagship Chandra X-ray telescope remains on the chopping ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center.

This black hole merger animation was created using data collected by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, an ...