But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they ...

ENTs occur when stars that are at least three times as massive as the Sun pass so close to a supermassive black hole that its ...

Two international teams zoned in on a potential answer to a decades-long mystery surrounding ephemeral cosmic X-rays.

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

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

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

At cosmological scales, Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has given scientists an immensely accurate blueprint ...

Audrey Lang named an Honorable Mention from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program for black ...

Black holes are already among the most mysterious objects in the galaxy, and yet, one specific type has almost completely ...

In a major breakthrough for astronomy, scientists have captured an incredibly detailed image of a powerful jet shooting out from a distant black hole. This was made possible by connecting some of the ...

That’s exactly what unfolded in a project led by Dr. Veselin Kostov of the SETI Institute and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ...

Astronomers have taken the first ever image that shows what happens when a star explodes twice in a supernova.