Credit: European Southern Observatory. A multimillion-pound research project will see some of the world’s leading experts use ...

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

In a fresh discovery that's leaving astronomers awestruck, the James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed the existence of a ...

New research reveals unusual cosmic bursts known as 'luminous fast blue optical transients' aren't what astronomers initially ...

Using telescopes on Earth and in space, researchers traced GRB 250702B to the constellation Scutum, near the dense, dusty plane of the Milky Way. A separate study led by Jonathan Carney of the ...

James Webb telescope data confirms the first known runaway supermassive black hole, revealing how it escaped its host galaxy, how scientists tracked it and what its discovery means for galaxy ...

Astronomers have made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST): a runaway black hole 10 ...

Astronomers call them LFBOTs—rare and powerful bursts of blue light that shine across billions of light-years and then vanish ...

Physicists spotted a “terribly exciting” new black hole, doubled down on weakening dark energy, and debated the meaning of ...

The discovery of a hidden supermassive black hole inside an ancient galaxy suggests that some of our universe's most extreme ...

Between January and March, IXPE locked its gaze on the Perseus Cluster, a colossal gathering of galaxies wrapped in gas as ...

New data from the Euclid satellite confirm that galaxy collisions spark the brightest, fastest-growing black holes, offering fresh insight into how these cosmic giants form and evolve.