For more than 150 years, the OJ 287 galaxy and its brightness variations five billion light years away has both puzzled and ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers hunted supermassive black holes devouring stars in dusty galaxies — but ...

“The gas spans the entire width of the system and was likely shocked and compressed at the collision site,” they and their ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

Science Officially Confirmed That The 10,000 Steps Rule Is Outdated. Here's The New Number To Target. If you live in one of ...

Astronomers have been left baffled by a cosmic discovery that defies longstanding theories about how stars interact with ...

A death-defying star survived destruction by a ravenous supermassive black hole in a tidal disruption event, and came back to let the cosmic titan take another bite!

An infinity symbol–shaped galaxy hosts an active supermassive black hole. The growing giant may have come from the aftermath of a galactic smashup.

Astronomers have discovered a rare type of black hole tucked in a star cluster approximately 40,000 light-years away. Officially designated NGC 6099 HLX-1, this black hole was found after NASA 's ...

A new discovery challenges the previously accepted understanding of how stars interact with black holes. While it’s often said that lightning never strikes the same place twice, black holes seem to ...

A STUNNING photo has captured a rare secret among the stars – and it could be the first time the phenomenon has ever been ...