But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

Quasar 0957+561, the first known gravitationally lensed quasar, lies near NGC 3079 in Ursa Major. Here's how to find and ...

Imagine if a species grew up on a planet that had a black hole moon the mass of the moon. They’d have tides, they’d have an unobstructed view of the night sky, and they’d have no clue about this ...

CIGA Design has unveiled the Blue Planet II Black Star Edition, a striking collaboration with Swiss atelier Label Noir that reimagines its Blue Planet series through a cosmic lens.

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's most long-awaited surveys begins. The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) ...

The Helix Galaxy, located 42 million light years away, is an unusual object as it is both a polar ring and a lenticular ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

These black holes are the most distant and stable objects we know. Using a technique called very long baseline interferometry ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, ...

One of the most perplexing discoveries in modern astronomy has been finding supermassive black holes, some weighing billions of times more than our sun, in galaxies that formed less than 750 ...

Learn how a "black hole 30 billion times the mass of the sun in a galaxy 2 billion light years away" using gravitational lensing, according to Durham University. Credit: Durham University ...

Science Never-before-seen black hole stuns scientists: “It looks nothing like normal” Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million ...