Surprisingly, some of the universe's brightest objects are black holes. As scorching gas and dust flow around and into a ...

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

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

Scientists may have "heard" the first tantalizing evidence of primordial black holes formed directly from overly dense ...

Astronomers have discovered 53 new supermassive black hole-powered quasars that are blasting out jets of matter at near light ...

“The supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has not only the capability to destroy stars but it can also ...

Stars powered by dark matter instead of nuclear fusion could solve several mysteries of the early universe, and we may have ...

For years, the center of our galaxy has been painted as a place where stars go to meet their end — a region ruled by Sagittarius A*, a black hole so massive that its gravity can stretch, tear, and ...

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

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have successfully discovered 53 new quasars powered by supermassive black holes ...

Astronomers have long debated the role of galaxy mergers in powering active supermassive black holes. Now an unprecedented dataset of a million galaxies from the Euclid telescope provides evidence ...

Building on decades of effort, a team of computational astrophysicists has achieved a major milestone: developing the most comprehensive model to date ...