An international team of astronomers has successfully demonstrated a new technique to observe especially faint black holes by ...

Astronomers watched as a galaxy with the forgettable name SDSS1335+0728 suddenly sprang to life when its massive black hole ...

Astronomers witnessed two galaxies engaged in an intense deep-space battle for the first time. Watch the “cosmic joust” in ...

An international team of astronomers has demonstrated a new technique that could revolutionize the way we observe some of the ...

"The appearance of such structures sheds new light on the sorts of mathematical objects that nature is built from." ...

"I think this discovery will motivate scientists to look for more examples of this type of event." Astronomers have caught a ...

Some stars streaking through the Milky Way at millions of kilometers per hour probably trace back to a supermassive black ...

The quasar’s radiation is stripping away gas in its companion galaxy, leaving behind clumps too compact to form new stars.

Astronomers have for the first time observed a violent cosmic collision dubbed the 'cosmic joust.' This dramatic encounter involving two galaxies 11 billion light years away, ...

UC Berkeley astronomers discovered a rogue black hole devouring a star 2,600 lightyears from its galaxy's core — the first ...

Whether the subject is dwarf galaxies, supermassive black holes, or 'hot Jupiters,' astronomers can spend months or years searching for comparable objects and formations to study. And it is rarer ...