Supermassive black holes are some of the most powerful engines in the universe. These giants sit at the centers of galaxies, ...

Discover interesting facts about what black holes are, how they form and what would happen if you fell into one.

A quasar in one galaxy blasted another during a cosmic collision, compressing star-forming gas into tiny clumps too small to ...

What if black holes weren’t the only things slowly vanishing from existence? Scientists have now shown that all dense cosmic ...

Using combined observations from ground-based telescopes over nearly four years, the researchers saw the distant galactic ...

Cosmic rays' power source has long remained a mystery, yet new research may finally provide the answer to where particle ...

"We see for the first time the effect of a quasar's radiation directly on the internal structure of the gas in an otherwise ...

Some are active, feeding on massive amounts of surrounding matter—sometimes as much as several suns per year. While most of ...

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

In a spectacle that could rival Star Wars, astronomers have uncovered a breathtaking cosmic event dubbed the "Cosmic Joust," where two galaxies are merging 3.6 billion light-years ...

Dark matter is more than five times as abundant as all the visible matter in the universe. So why can't we see any of it?

Princeton graduate students April Qiu Cheng and Albert Qin are two of the 19 recipients of the 2025 Hertz Fellowships in ...