There’s the infamous zoo hypothesis, which supposes that advanced aliens know about our planet but stay away to let us evolve ...

For 50 years, astronomers have been searching for evidence of winds emanating from the black hole Sagittarius A*. Now, they ...

Scientists have captured the first direct image of two black holes orbiting each other inside quasar OJ287, confirming a ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile have discovered "signs of a ‘hot spot’ ...

The discovery of a colossal black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) – a dwarf galaxy that has orbited the Milky Way for billions of years – has both shocked and fascinated the global scientific ...

Black holes are so strange that physicists have long wondered if they are quite what they seem. Now we are set to find out if ...

A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an ...

For the first time, astronomers have managed to capture a radio image showing two black holes orbiting each other. The ...

Most supermassive black holes don’t just swallow up matter, they eject it, sometimes in spectacular jets of super heated ...

The galaxy’s vast spiral arms span approximately 2,60,000 light-years, hosting over a trillion stars orbiting a supermassive black hole at its centre.

A newly discovered odd radio circle in space could serve as a time capsule for the violent events that shape galaxies.

At the centre of our galaxy, there’s a mysterious, diffuse glow given off by gamma rays — powerful radiation usually emitted ...