In a discovery that sounds straight out of science fiction, astronomers have spotted a galaxy shaped like the infinity symbol ...

A pair of galaxies whose light has traveled for 8.3 billion years contains what astronomers believe is a supermassive black ...

Unlike active galaxies that constantly pull in surrounding material, these black holes lie dormant until a star passes by.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have teamed up to identify a new possible example of a ...

Astronomers at MIT, Columbia University, and elsewhere have used NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to peer through the ...

Astronomers confirmed the first case of a star surviving a black hole encounter, challenging long-held beliefs about tidal disruption events.

Chandra X-ray Observatory and X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) imagery of the Milky Way's core and supermassive black hole ...

"It was something I’ve never seen before and I’ve looked at tens of thousands of images of galaxies over my career," he said.

NASA Spots Black Holes Eating Stars To Create Biggest Boom Since Big Bang by Aaron Leong — Thursday, June 05, 2025, 12:20 PM EDT Comments ...

Black holes caught devouring massive stars in biggest explosion since Big Bang The three examples astronomers highlighted in a new study describe supermassive black holes feasting on stars more ...

NASA released three new pieces of cosmic sound Thursday that are associated with the densest and darkest members of our universe: black holes. These scientific productions are sonifications — or ...

What is Space Jaws? A covert black hole revealed itself to astronomers in 2025 with a spectacular burst of radiation known as a tidal disruption event ...