New observations of several distant giant black holes suggest the mysterious entities play a strong role in shaping their ...

With the recent first light milestone for the Vera Rubin Observatory, it's only a matter of time before one of astronomy's ...

Could our galaxy actually be inside a black hole? New research seems to suggest this possibility. NASA's James Webb Telescope discovered that the rotation of the galaxies goes against what scientists ...

NASA astronomers have confirmed what may be the greatest discovery of the era. They found a significant reservoir of water that was hidden in the cosmos, and that surrounds a quasa ...

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

Readers doubtless know that metals expand when heated. As explained in a NASA blog post that’s a problem for space telescopes ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

“For example, Chandra’s X-rays reveal the high-energy radiation around the supermassive black hole at the center of M31 as ...

These are rare occurrences—scientists estimate that the giant black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy gobbles a star ...

NASA has spotted something that It was never seen in decades exploring the outer space. At the center of the galaxy, a ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have observed black holes causing the most powerful space explosions ever recorded, revealing previously hidden black holes.