Black holes don't have many identifying features. They come in one colour (black) and one shape (spherical). The main difference between ...

When stars explode as supernovas, they can cause serious cosmic carnage. Is Earth in any danger from any nearby stars?

NASA’s Swift Observatory has detected a rare signal from dual black holes impacting gas clouds in a distant galaxy.

This image of the Milky Way galaxy was captured by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, in collaboration with NASA. This image of the Milky Way, created by NASA ...

The research suggests this tunnel could act as a passage through the gas, potentially linking our solar system to other stars ...

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf galaxy from the early universe, shedding light on how ...

The galaxies, each as vast as the Milky Way, are baffling because most scientific models for galaxy evolution suggest ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

There is a region of the sky where astronomers fear to look. Filled with dark clouds of dust, it hides an unseen mass. A mass ...

Astronomers have identified three ultra-massive galaxies -- nearly as massive as the Milky Way -- already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang. This surprising discovery was made ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...