Observations from the ALMA telescope array uncovered evidence of giant space tornadoes at the core of our galaxy.

Scientists have detected radio signals from hot gas surrounding a supermassive black hole that existed 12.9 billion years ago ...

Greek astronomer Dimitrios Psaltis was instrumental in the gigantic effort to take mankind's first-ever image of a black hole ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

There are plenty of weird things floating around in space and black holes may be the weirdest. They've certainly sparked and stretched our imaginations.

"Could our galaxy one day experience similar high-energy phenomena that will have serious consequences for the survival of ...

X-ray astronomy is a somewhat neglected corner of the more general field of astronomy. The biggest names in telescopes, like ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

But recently astronomers have used data collected by the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft to detect three previously unknown black holes and, it turns out, are the closest known to Earth.

“It is astounding to realize that we have another supermassive black hole just down the block, cosmically speaking,” Jesse Han, an astronomer from the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and ...

A galaxy spotted just 330 million years after the Big Bang has been implicated in bringing light to the choking dark of the ...