In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to ...

"We would need to consider the possibility that the source was created (or trapped as a primordial black hole) by a highly advanced technological civilization," Harvard's Avi Loeb writes.

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

A team of scientists is proposing a bold alternative to the Big Bang theory, suggesting that our universe may have formed ...

In a recently published paper in Physical Review Letters, scientists propose a comprehensive theoretical framework indicating ...

Hubble Space Telescope snapped an image of UGC 11397, a spiral galaxy situated in the constellation Lyra, about 250 million ...

A new paper claims astronomers discovered an ultramassive black hole heavier than any other black hole we've ever measured.

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.

Traditionally thought to go silent after a brief flare of activity, some black holes are now being observed emitting new ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...