In a scene straight out of science fiction, astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a massive black hole ...

A pair of stars orbiting one another has been found near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* using the European ...

This week, physicists at CERN reported the transmutation of lead into gold in the Large Hadron Collider, raising the ...

Using NASA 's Hubble Space Telescope and other observatories, astronomers found the cosmic object in an unexpected place.

Astronomers using NASA’s IXPE satellite have finally cracked a cosmic mystery—how X-rays are produced in the energetic jets ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

A star in a faraway galaxy is sending itself into a spiral of doom, repeatedly plunging through a disk of hot gas surrounding ...

A traveling black hole stalking the cosmos for stellar prey recently revealed itself by shredding a star in a radioactive ...

Among the events it can identify are tidal disruption events, where a star gets spaghettified by the enormous gravity of a ...

Often bucking tradition, these women sought knowledge of the universe and reimagined the way we view the cosmos.

Despite weighing about a million times the mass of our sun, the black hole wasn't found at the center of its host galaxy, ...

Black holes are the hungry monsters of the cosmos: enormously dense objects that can suck in any material which strays too close and then devour it. Now, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope ...