For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by ...

"In order to get such high sensitivity in the mid-infrared, one needs to go to space, as the atmosphere severely messes up ...

Students in a joint UT Austin and UTSA astronomy course say they have zeroed in on an unexpectedly massive black hole parked ...

An international research team led by PD Dr. Florian Peissker at the University of Cologne has used the new observation ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have uncovered a voraciously feeding and rapidly growing ...

A colossal star met an unexpected fate when it drifted too close to a supermassive black hole 10 billion light-years away.

On Black Hole Friday, we spotlight the work of astrophysicist Chung-Pei Ma, whose research is transforming our understanding ...

The James Webb telescope may have detected the universe's earliest and most distant known black hole at the heart of galaxy ...

When peering into the cosmic past, the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a supermassive black hole that doesn't have a ...

The flare came from a supermassive black hole that’s 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one ...

Researchers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have confirmed an actively growing supermassive black hole ...

Some galaxies could grow so large by consuming one star from a binary system. April 8, 2012— -- For years, astronomers have puzzled over the diet needed to bulk up supermassive black holes – ...