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, ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

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.

For now, researchers think the light might be coming from the first stars to exist, or outflows from a supermassive black ...

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

The visualisation shows a black hole which, according to the account, is similar in size to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive ...

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

Scientists have discovered a star-smothering black hole energy jet tearing through a galaxy similar to the Milky Way.

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

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...