Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

Roughly 400,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe cooled just enough to allow photons to escape from the primordial ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

Astronomers have discovered a rapidly feeding black hole in a dwarf ... This low-mass supermassive black hole, spotted with ...

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 ...

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

An international team of astronomers has identified three ultra-massive galaxies—each nearly as massive as the Milky ...

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic ...

If another gravity theory is correct, "then the broader implications are enormous," astrophysicist Stacy McGaugh told ...

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

NASA’s Chandra spots unusual 'knots' in a nearby black hole jet. X-ray data shows bright knots in Centaurus A black hole’s ...