Credit: MARK GARLICK via Astronomers have watched a massive star vanish in the night sky, only to be replaced by a black ...

Chandra X-ray Observatory observations of the Perseus galaxy cluster black hole and M87's jet have been turned into sound by ...

Black hole light echoes are an extreme form of gravitational lensing. To measure the masses and spins of black holes, ...

A recent study has proposed a new mechanism for the formation of primordial black holes that could provide answers about dark matter.

The emissions from these supermassive black hole-powered sources are seen as "quasars" here on Earth. Some accretion disk and ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...

Looking out into the Milky Way, it's possible to see all sorts of strange cosmic structures — tentacle-like spiraling arms of ...

(NASA) – This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from ...

There are monstrous objects at the heart of every large galaxy — black holes that are millions or even billions of times more ...

Astrophysicists have developed a method to detect light echoes from black holes, potentially revolutionizing the measurement ...

Back in 2009 astronomers spotted the same trend in jet knots blasted by a monster black hole in the center of M87 galaxy, ...