A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope ...

Stars are the architects of nearly all the chemical elements in the universe, including ones crucial to life as we know it, ...

A black hole is a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape. There are two main ...

This galaxy's central black hole appears to be a "messy eater" as its interstellar scraps are strewn into space.

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

"Many supermassive black holes may lie concealed within dusty regions of the early universe, undetected," said astronomer ...

Red specks in the early universe are puzzling astronomers, but a proposed explanation suggests they are the progenitors of ...

Astronomers have discovered strong evidence of a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of ...

Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way received a powerful kick from the Large Magellanic Cloud — and a central black hole might ...

The discovery was made by precisely tracking the motion of 21 stars located on the outskirts of the Milky Way. These stars ...

The observation of titanic jets emerging from the supermassive black hole at the heart of a distant galaxy could be a grim ...