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

Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

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

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 ...

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

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

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Z Fold 7, marking its most substantial upgrade to the Fold series in years. With a ...

Scientists believe the Milky Way contains up to 400 billion stars and at least as many planets. The largest galaxy known, IC 1101, has more than 100 trillion stars. Step outside on a clear night and ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...