Scientists observed a spinning black hole dragging space and time as it tore apart a star, confirming a key prediction of Einstein’s theory of relativity ...

Astronomers have observed a star wobbling in its orbit around a ravenous supermassive black hole that is ripping it apart and ...

On a scale that stretches human intuition, a distant supermassive black hole has hurled matter into space at 134 million ...

JWST uncovers evidence of ancient “monster stars” whose extreme chemistry may explain the origins of early supermassive black ...

The 11th day of the 18th annual Space Telescope Advent Calendar features a new view of the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy.

NASA’s Fermi telescope detected a record-breaking gamma-ray burst lasting nearly seven hours. The unusual, multi-pulse ...

Gamma-ray bursts (GRB) are some of the most perplexing phenomena in nature. Even though astronomers have detected about ...

A Charleston astronomy professor answers astronomy students' questions about worm holes, black holes, colonizing Mars, outer space's many strange odors and more, ...

A team of astronomers including George Washington University physics Ph.D. student Eliza Neights recorded an extraordinary ...

"We might lose the ability to observe about 30% of the faintest galaxies. We are at the point of starting to be able to see ...

A never-before-seen blast from a supermassive black hole was spotted by two sophisticated X-ray space telescopes. This giant ...

X-ray space telescopes caught a supermassive blackhole flinging matter into space at a fifth of the speed of light ...