"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory provides a new look at the Andromeda galaxy in this multi-wavelength image that includes ...

LOFAR is a massive radio telescope that comprises 100,000 antennas spread across eight European countries. The researchers ...