The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

A rare cosmic alignment has revealed three supermassive black holes blasting radio jets at the same time inside a tangled ...

For years, telescopes have been finding extremely energetic blue stellar explosions that could not be explained until now.

A black hole the mass of at least ten million suns is tearing through space, fast enough to escape its home galaxy. As it ...

A new study on some 1,600 galaxies based on data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals that many small galaxies do not ...

Every now and again, a stellar object is caught zooming across space like a white rabbit, extremely late for a very important date.

A lonely black hole roaming the cosmos in solitude has been confirmed for the first time. A closer look has revealed the dark object's identity, after much hubbub. The new analysis shows that the ...

A star’s fatal brush with a supermassive black hole can light up a quiet galaxy. When gravity shreds the star, its gas ...

Mysterious ‘little red dots’ seen by the James Webb Space Telescope can be explained by a new kind of black hole enshrouded ...

In May 2019, astronomers picked up something strange in the fabric of spacetime. The LIGO and Virgo detectors recorded a gravitational wave that lasted just one-tenth of a second. The signal, known as ...

The international team of astrophysicists behind the world's three gravitational wave detectors just submitted a paper analyzing a uniquely strong gravitational wave from 2023. Caused by merging black ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...