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

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

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

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

Particles orbiting a black hole could collide at colossal energies, generating collision products that may offer valuable ...

The scientists who precisely measure the position of Earth are in a bit of trouble. Their measurements are essential for the ...

Astronomers studying a distant galaxy cluster stumbled upon ancient radio signals that might hold clues to the formation of ...

What happens when two rare ring galaxies collide? They form an infinity symbol—or the face of a cosmic owl, depending on how ...

NASA, ESA, and ground observatories have detected powerful space explosions caused by black holes tearing apart massive stars ...

The new galaxy, because of how far away it is, looks to observers exactly as it did when it was first created 3 billion years ...