Astrophysicist and newly named MacArthur Foundation Fellow Kareem El-Badry is changing how we understand the cosmos, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's ...

Researcher Matthew Graham said scientists didn't initially "believe the numbers about the energy" emitting from the cosmic ...

The black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy is 1000 times more massive than Sagittarius A*. Watch views of both captured ...

An unexpected monster black hole was found hiding inside one of the Milky Way's tiniest neighbors, rewriting what scientists ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

The Big Bang theory has dominated our understanding of the universe’s origin for almost 100 years. It describes a moment when ...

Black holes are considered cosmic gluttons, from which not even light can escape. That is also why the images of black holes ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

Astronomers caught a rogue black hole tearing apart a star 2,600 light-years from its galaxy’s center — a first-of-its-kind ...

Astronomers spotted the largest flare ever released from a supermassive black hole as it snacked on a giant star.

A Milky Way-sized galaxy from the early universe appears to have stopped producing any new stars because a supermassive black hole at its center is blasting out all the material needed for stars to be ...