"We're now entering an era where we can automatically catch these rare events as they happen, not just after the fact." ...

Violent black hole collisions may create black hole 'morsels' no larger than an asteroid — and these bizarre objects could ...

New measurements of the galaxy at the heart of the “Cosmic Horseshoe” indicate that it could house the most massive object ...

The scenario closest to the observations, the researchers determined, involved a massive dying star and a compact object such ...

Black holes are dark, menacing objects with gravity so intense that not even light can escape, so you don’t want to mess with them. A recent discovery of one of the strangest supernovas ever observed ...

An international team of astronomers using NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer), has challenged our understanding ...

A black hole with a mass equivalent to 36 billion suns-10,000 times heavier than the one at the center of the Milky Way-has ...

The astronomers estimated that the "ultramassive" black hole is over 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way's black hole.

If you point your spaceship toward the constellation Leo, fire your thrusters, and travel about 5 billion light-years, you’ll ...

“Our analysis shows that the blast was sparked by a catastrophic encounter with a black hole companion, and is the strongest evidence to date that such close interactions can actually detonate a star, ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

In a paper published in the journal iScience, Bambi lays out a plan to turn such a deep-space mission into reality. If ...