The universe's first galaxies were hot messes, according to a recent study. During their younger days, they were wild, ...

At the heart of the Milky Way, just 27,000 light-years from Earth, there is a supermassive black hole with a mass of more ...

Located only 56 million light-years away in Ursa Major, NGC 4102 gives astronomers a nearby target to study how these active ...

A distant black hole has been caught releasing the brightest flare ever, which is the result of it ripping apart and ...

An international team led by ICREA researcher Mark Gieles, from the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the University of ...

The McDonald Observatory director Taft Armandroff of The University of Texas at Austin will lead the next phase of ...

Dr. Massey’s tenure guided the Giant Magellan Telescope through key design and construction milestones, helped secure nearly ...

A giant colonial spiderweb in a sulfuric cave on the border between Greece and Albania may be the largest ever found — and it ...

The observed black hole flare is believed to be the largest and most distant one ever recorded, coming from 10 billion ...

A supermassive black hole gobbled up a huge enormous star, producing the biggest and most distant black hole flare ever ...

A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich has turned to an unconventional substance in the hunt ...