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

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

In summer, we face toward the Milky Way's hub in the Teapot constellation, home to the galaxy's supermassive black hole.

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

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

Gravitational waves stretch and squeeze the fabric of space and time itself. When space/time is squeezed, pulsar pulses ...

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

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...