Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies that are heavily distorted. This spectacular image is caused by the presence ...

The satellites the world relies on for navigation, communication and more get their bearings from distant black holes – but ...

New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

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

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" ...

"Very massive stars are like the 'rock stars' of the universe — they are powerful, and they live fast and die young." ...

Caltech simulations reveal what happens when black holes collide with neutron stars—violent cracking, intense shock waves, ...

Muse have returned with a new single, ‘Unravelling’ – you can listen to it below. The trio debuted the track as they kicked off their current European tour in Helsinki, Finland last week. This came ...

A new study has been accepted by the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics that proposes two new models of black ...

Black holes are invisible, yet they are among the brightest things in the universe. If a star wanders too close to a black hole, it gets torn apart in a fireworks show called a tidal disruption ...

These elusive objects, called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), are thought to weigh between 100 and 100,000 times the mass of the sun. They could be the missing link in understanding how ...