Astronomers found a massive black hole that spent ages in a "quiet" phase when everything around it in the early universe ...

Looking at a distant galaxy means looking back in time.

Scientists are diving deep into the origins of supermassive black holes, using recent gravitational wave detections as a key ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a tidal disruption event 300 million light years away. The donut shaped remains of a star were found around a hungry black hole. Credit: NASA's Goddard Spa ...

The Hubble Telescope has spotted an unusual spiral galaxy – 76 million light-years away – that resembles an eye ...

A "missing link" black hole in Omega Centauri is still missing. What appeared to be an intermediate-mass black hole was a ...

"The Spiderweb protocluster is an ideal laboratory for investigating the relationship between black holes and star formation ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged a "200,000 light-year-long trail of newborn stars" that may have been left behind by a ...

There are many observations from JWST that have challenged our understanding of how galaxies grow and evolve in the early universe. Just to add another, a galaxy that looks like the Milky Way and is ...

Astronomers have identified a remarkable water reservoir in deep space, circling a huge quasar more than 12 billion light-years away.

For half a century, astrophysicists have been trying to solve the Black Hole Information Paradox—first explained by Stephen ...

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