Artist's impression of a supermassive black hole surrounded by gas and dust in four different wavelengths of light. Visible light (top right) and low-energy X-rays (bottom left) are blocked by the gas ...

Astronomers have identified a quasar that may help explain how the universe’s “dark ages” finally ended. Astronomers have ...

A new study shows that black holes consume gas which creates an outburst that cools nearby gas for the black hole to consume ...

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The most important testimony at the trial of rapper A$AP Rocky got second billing as the defendant's partner and the mother of their children sat quietly but shined bright like a diamond in the ...

When astronomers detected the first long-predicted gravitational waves in 2015, it opened a whole new window into the Universe.

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

The test flight took place in the same Mojave Desert area in California where Charles "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier in 1947.

Rather than relying on a cheek swab or a little blood, however, these cosmic DNA tests utilize tiny ripples in the fabric of ...

Observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope and the VLT have revealed jets blasting from supermassive black holes cause ...

After decades of study, scientists sound genuinely optimistic about the possibility of detecting primordial black holes, which might explain dark matter.

Researchers found for the first time evidence that even microquasars containing a low-mass star are efficient particle ...