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

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate -- over 40 times the theoretical ...

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 ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

The kilonova briefly mimicked the conditions immediately following the Big Bang, and allowed scientists to confirm the source ...

As we gaze into the universe, we've discovered most galaxies have a supermassive black hole lurking near the center. Astronomers have even found these enormous celestial monsters in the early ...

Using data from NASA’s JWST and Chandra X-ray Observatory, a team of U.S. National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers ...