A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

These findings are detailed in a paper titled “A super-Eddington-accreting black hole ~1.5 Gyr after the Big Bang observed ...

At the heart of our Milky Way galaxy lurks a supermassive black hole about four million times the mass of the sun, called ...

For the first time, NASA’s Swift Observatory has observed twin black holes disrupting a gas cloud in a galaxy’s center, ...

To estimate how close a supernova would have to be to cause serious damage to Earth, we must first look at a supernova's ...

An international team of researchers has uncovered evidence that astrophysics models of massive stars and supernovae are ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

To put that into perspective, the universe is now about 13.8 billion years old. The discovery could provide insight into ...

This illustration shows a red, early-universe dwarf galaxy that hosts a rapidly feeding black hole at its center. Using data ...

A team of astronomers believe they have found a black hole in the early universe gobbling down matter at a rate of 40 times ...

Recent results suggest these exotic objects just might help us account for the mysterious force pushing the universe apart.