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

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

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

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts ...

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

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black ...

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

For decades, scientists have believed there should be black holes that fall between two well-known types. On one end are ...

Using the XMM-Newton telescope, astronomers have witnessed high-speed "burps" erupting from a distant overfeeding ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has observed a surprising alignment in the spin directions of ancient galaxies, challenging ...

About 60 per cent of the galaxies seemed to rotate clockwise. That contradicts the theory that galaxy rotations are random.

Scientists believe that we could have black holes in our homes and not even realise it after studying the giant, destructive forces. Black holes are things that you wouldn’t want to get close to as ...