The explosions, which leave behind a black hole or a neutron star, are so energetic they can outshine their host galaxies for ...

A team of U.S. astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole that is consuming matter at a phenomenal rate—40x the ...

Astronomers trained the instrument on a number of galaxies in deep space, and at the center of one galaxy spotted a young, ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

Scientists have found the "hungriest" black hole that is "feasting" on matter faster than experts previously thought possible ...

The black hole's voracious appetite, which has allowed it to pile on more than seven million solar masses in just 12 million ...

This week, researchers hypothesized that human culture is distinguished from cultures of other species like whales by unique ...

It's sitting in the middle of a galaxy called LID-568, as seen just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, appearing to guzzle ...

Astronomers revisited decades-old data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, discovering bright, clumped “knots” in an ...

Astronomers have found what could be described as the universe's hungriest black hole – one that's breaking fundamental ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

Do you remember the famous images of the supermassive black holes in the centre of the galaxy M87 and our own galaxy the ...