Astronomers have caught a star in the act of being ripped apart by a supermassive black hole, unleashing a blast of light and ...

Astronomers have uncovered a gargantuan black hole that appears to sit almost alone in space, with hardly any stars around it ...

Pluribus star Karolina Wydra showed off her star power in a Season 5 arc on Justified alongside Walton Goggins.

Astronomers have noticed a long and very unusual luminous trail in their observations. This stretched structure, where stars seem to be born spontaneously, raises a question: what colossal phenomenon ...

Astronomers have sought to explain the existence of supermassive black holes forming less than a billion years after the Big Bang, a timescale incompatible with standard stellar evolution processes.

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A star’s violent destruction by a black hole has offered physicists an extraordinary gift this holiday season: a cosmic wobble that betrays spacetime itself being dragged around by the black hole’s ...

Omega Centauri dominates the southern sky as the Milky Way's largest and brightest globular cluster, a dense sphere containing roughly 10 million stars. Earlier this year, astronomers found evidence ...

Supermassive black holes sit in the centers of galaxies, hidden by clouds of gas and dust, and usually keep their wildest behavior tucked out of sight. Every now and then, though, one puts on a show.

An artist’s impression of a bright quasar almost outshining its host galaxy. Credit: Dimitrios Sakkas (tomakti), Antonis Georgakakis, Angel Ruiz, Maria Chira (NOA) New observations suggest that the ...