The long-awaited detection of gravitational waves has opened up a whole new world of astronomy. One of the key efforts is now ...

Uncover the mystery of Omega Centauri: a stellar-mass black hole is responsible for the fast movement of nearly ten million ...

The size and spin of black holes can reveal important information about how and where they formed, according to new research.

Scientists have found a massive black hole that is "napping" after stuffing itself with too much food in perhaps what is the ...

The most powerful telescope to be launched into space has made history by detecting a record number of new stars in a distant galaxy. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, history's largest and most ...

The fleeting cosmic firework likely originated within the turbulent magnetosphere surrounding a distant neutron star. Fast ...

Astronomers finally discovered the origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs)–mysterious and powerful bursts from outer space first ...

The revolutionary James Webb Space Telescope and next-gen radio telescopes are probing what’s known as the epoch of ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

Astronomers pinned down the origins of at least one fast radio burst, a brief and brilliant explosion of radio waves emitted by an extremely compact object. The team's novel technique might also ...

In 1925, grad student Cecilia Payne first proposed that stars were mostly made of hydrogen and helium and shaped our ...