"They look like a [developing] butterfly or something in this young state that kind of grows wrapped in some sort of gas that ...

Deep in the frozen heart of Antarctica, the South Pole Telescope has been watching one of the most extreme neighborhoods in our galaxy, and it's just caught something extraordinary happening there.

"It's like watching a cosmic volcano erupt again after ages of calm — except this one is big enough to carve out structures ...

The James Webb Space Telescope snapped its sharpest image of the area around a black hole, solving a long-standing galactic mystery.

Combining observations from several powerful telescopes, astronomers have detected a gargantuan, 'wobbling' black hole ...

The supermassive black holes thought to lurk at the heart of most galaxies attained their enormous sizes by eating stars, a new study suggests. Some theories hold that these galactic black holes — ...

Recent discoveries show that runaway black holes, moving at extraordinary speeds, are tearing through galaxies, leaving ...

Unlike typical black holes, this one is not located at the galactic center, but rather, it is offset by nearly one kiloparsec and is launching radio jets. This off-nuclear, in-situ, accreting black ...

The study of black holes and the dynamics at the centres of galaxies has reached new heights with the advent of high-resolution imaging and advanced simulation techniques. Black holes, the enigmatic ...

Astronomers believe they may have solved an "impossible" space mystery through a new study of a black hole. The black hole ...

Astronomers unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole 25,640 light years away, at the center of our own galaxy earlier today in a special edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.