"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

For the first time, scientists observed a black hole tearing apart a star far from its galaxy’s center, producing the fastest ...

In this clip, American astrobiologist Caleb Scharf tells presenter Bridget Kendall about supermassive black holes and argues ...

When galaxies collide, it's not a gentle affair, but it does take millions of years. Over this time, the two massive star ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

A black hole far from its galactic center has unleashed the fastest, brightest radio flares ever seen from a star’s ...

Astronomers have witnessed something that no one believed possible: a black hole ripping apart a star not at the center of a ...

Pulsars could be helping scientists distinguish between gravitational waves caused by supermassive black hole collisions and ...

The complex dance of two black holes locked in a doomed orbit has been revealed in a first-of-its-kind direct radio image.