This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

Breathtaking images of the night sky taken by a Dublin photographer are to feature at Ireland’s biggest art fair. Tom ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to make up most of the universe's mass, has puzzled scientists for nearly a ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

But how do we know this happened? Let's look first at the evidence. In 1929, the American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

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

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the Sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Moons are locked in orbit around planets. Planets, asteroids and comets orbit more massive stars, and stars collect around ...