For the first time, astronomers have detected intense, fast-changing radio signals from a tidal disruption event, dubbed ...

It’s possible that these objects might be the primordial beginnings of the supermassive black holes found in the centers of ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared camera, scientists have captured the gigantic jet blasting out of M87* in a ...

IIA astronomers confirm black hole activity suppresses star formation, revealing insights into galaxy evolution and gas ...

When space telescopes blazed with high-energy radiation for hours earlier this year, astronomers suspected that they were ...

Artist’s interpretation of two massive black holes (MBHs) within a galaxy. A tidal disruption event unfolds around the MBH ...

Some of the mysterious pinpricks of light at the dawn of the Universe could be a type of object we've never seen before.

As the collapsed core of a massive star, a neutron star is a small but incredibly dense object, packing up to three times the ...

"This is truly extraordinary," Itai Sfaradi of the University of California, Berkeley, said in a statement. "Never before ...

Event Horizon Telescope data reveal the magnetic field around M87* shifted, weakened and then flipped, defying theoretical expectations.

UCLA astronomers report the discovery of a remarkable star that orbits the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy in a blistering 11.5 years — the shortest known orbit of any star ...