"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very ...

Names are a strange thing in astronomy. Sometimes scientists come up with grandiose, simple name, like the Extremely Large ...

Views of a massive galaxy cluster Abell 2256 have been captured by NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and ...

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

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

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

Hubble spotted a rare off-center black hole shredding a star, revealing the first optical discovery of a wandering ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

CIGA Design has unveiled the Blue Planet II Black Star Edition, a striking collaboration with Swiss atelier Label Noir that reimagines its Blue Planet series through a cosmic lens.

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

NASA's Chandra Observatory has combined different wavelength images of the Andromeda galaxy to honor astronomer Vera Rubin, ...