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

Astronomers used the ALMA radio array in Chile to show that two narrow spiral arms are funneling gas toward the central ...

The telescope captured the clearest image of the M87 galaxy's supermassive black hole and the ejecting material jet using an ...

Lycoming College invites the Williamsport community and surrounding areas to enjoy a free show in its Detwiler Planetarium on ...

A strange cosmic trail discovered in a galaxy is intriguing astronomers with its exceptional dimensions and origin. This ...

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

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

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

Astronomers have caught a runaway black hole in the act of tearing apart a star in a place it shouldn’t be: far from the bustling center of its host galaxy. The stellar catastrophe – known as a tidal ...

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

For decades, astronomers have listened to the cosmos through pulsars — rapidly spinning neutron stars that emit perfectly ...

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