Whether a galactic environment has the right conditions for habitable planets to form could depend on how the black hole in ...

One of the common misconceptions about black holes is that they devour not only matter, but also the history of that matter.

One of the most powerful objects in the universe is a radio quasar—a spinning black hole spraying out highly energetic ...

Elusive black hole radiation predicted by Stephen Hawking may have influenced the way the universe took shape after the Big ...

The smaller, intermediate mass black hole was likely derived from the Sausage Galaxy, which collided with the Milky Way 10 ...

Astrophysicists have teased a hellish potential future in which life on Earth is extinguished by deadly radiation from the ...

People often think about archaeology happening deep in jungles or inside ancient pyramids. However, a team of astronomers has ...

Astronomers have uncovered a spiral galaxy nearly a billion light-years away that hosts a supermassive black hole launching ...

Scientists have spotted a defiant galaxy. Located nearly 1 billion light-years from Earth, the galaxy 2MASX J23453268−0449256 is a spiral, like our home the Milky Way. Yet it do ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has given us a view of the earliest moments of galaxy formation in the Universe.

They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ... Feb. 13, 2025 — Traditional black holes, as predicted by ...