A new study may visually solve an enduring mystery about a bright object that's been studied since the 19th century ...

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

Astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole far from the center of a galaxy where it ought to be giving off bright ...

UW-Milwaukee physics and astronomy assistant professor Lia Medeiros explains gravitational waves and the role UWM played in discovering them.

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

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* ...

Stars often fall into black holes, and now it seems the opposite can also occur, producing an extra long-lasting explosion as ...

Webb Telescope detected a possible direct collapse black hole between two merging galaxies called the "Infinity Galaxy." ...

Reionization is thought to have been driven by ultraviolet light produced by both early stars and active galactic nuclei ...

First-ever image of two black holes captured orbiting each other, confirming a decades-old theory using a powerful radio ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Circinus galaxy is being fed with gaseous material by two spiral arms, ...