The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

New observations and simulations by a research team led by MPE show that a massive binary star near the center of our Galaxy ...

A galaxy roughly 9 billion light-years from Earth is hemorrhaging its own future. Nearly half the molecular gas inside the ...

At some 60 billion times the mass of the sun, this dark void could be home to a pair of black holes that are due for a cosmic ...

What are the little red dots discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope? These X-rays may offer a clue.

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can ...

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies. But there's an open question in ...

Astronomers saw past the blinding light of a quasar, only to find a supermassive black hole that's much smaller than theoretical predictions. Reading time 2 minutes All galaxies have a supermassive ...

For the first time, astronomers have gotten a detailed look at how a supermassive black hole (SMBH) eats, discovering two large spiral arms of gas that are funneling its meals inward. The finding, ...

In a significant potential shift for astrophysics, it turns out that some quasars may weigh as little as half what was previously believed. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens ...